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Article: PAVLOV EXPERIMENT WORKS QUITE WELL.(Home Front)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2001
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Byline: W. Bruce Cameron
Dear Science Teacher:
My son has asked me to write you to explain why his assignment will not be turned in on time this morning.
As it was explained to me, the experiment he was to conduct involved a re-creation of Pavlov's study of conditioned response, in which dogs hear a bell when they are served dinner and eventually come to associate the sound with food to the extent that they drool whenever they hear a ringing noise. (Frankly, I had reservations over the idea that my dog would start slobbering whenever I received a phone call, but chose not to express my doubts in the name of scientific progress.)
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