Tags for this video have been changed from 'pets, animals, cats, dogs, comedy, standup' to 'pets, animals, cats, dogs, comedy, standup, pavlov, pavlovian conditioning' - edited by rasch187

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker: The Pablovian reaction is easily predicted.

And Pavlovian conditioning is evidence of emotion.

Learning requires understanding and preference. Emotion is a much simpler source of preference than cost/benefit analysis. Since awareness is implicit in learning, and you agree that learning takes place, you are basically stuck with Dog X "likes" this , or Dog X "decided" this, the first requires much less of the learner from a neurophysiology perspective.

You could, of course, simply suppose some theoretical source of preference that all animals, except humans, share, at which point it looks like you are just trying to make us special instead of taking a serious look at the issue.

>> ^zensunnione:
This person is a straw man for atheists.


at some point on this site, i have been the victim of pavlovian conditioning such that i associate the phrase "straw-man" with the action "down-vote comment"

Tags changed from "dwight, office, altoid, prank" to "altoid, prank,pavlovian conditioning" by gold star member winkler1.

That's not taste bad control, that's classical conditioning, also known as Pavlovian conditioning after the most famous describer of the effect. The experiment referenced by Jim was Pavlov's dog experiement, where he rang a bell to call his dogs to eat. After a few times, simply ringing the bell caused the dogs to salivate without even seeing food.

As such, would you consider changing the title of the video?

Damn, we're running out of fat colors!
The Shangri-La Diet works for me. The author (psych prof) believes that mass-produced, identical-tasting foods are the root of the problem. Pavlovian conditioning.