His work is recognized for having succeeded in highlighting the different motivations that an organism would need to elicit a particular response. Additionally, Rescorla gives credit to Ivan Pavlov's work because of his success in learning. Organisms would adapt due to different sets of stimuli and install the new culture in an organism. Pavlovian conditioning gave rise to other learning theories developed by BF Skinner and Watson. The school of psychology had a great societal influence in the mid-20th century (Rescorla,