My daughter was watching Bluey the other day, and Bingo wanted some “Pavlova”. I immediately thought it was some reference to them all being dogs and Pavlov.
Nope. Turns out it’s actually a dessert named after a Russian ballerina that originated in either New Zealand or Australia in the early 20th century.
I think if any Australians see you you are in deep trouble!
That’s not what pavlovian conditioning is though??
Sure it is, strong association through repetition.
I’ve retrained on Pavlov’s cat
Not everyone thinks of dog, there’s a bit of a bell curve.
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What else do there Pavlov?
I thought of the VR shooter Pavlov shack first.
I also thought of that one.
For anyone curious it’s Counter Strike in VR, basically.
Next you’ll be telling me that Schrödinger wasn’t a cat
How can you know if he was or if he wasn’t a cat?
Frankenstein is the monster?
Wait, the princess is Zelda?!
I once read that reverse pavlovianism is the application of saliva to a dog’s mouth in the attempt to ring a bell.
That’s just thought association, classical (pavlovian) conditioning is about a conditioned stimulus creating a learned response, not a thought, eg if you were to be shudder every time you heard ‘Pavlov’ because you thought of dogs.
If I start to salivate in sympathetic parallel to the imagined hungry dogs, does that count?
Way to ruin the fun, poindexter
Oh that’s just JackGreenEarth’s conditioned response
i actually think of a bell. sometimes i think of drool.
There’s a dog?!
Actually, Pavlov WAS the dog. Pavlov’s dogs were his friends, who accompanied him on his adventure to find a bell and drool on it.
Me too Jomny Sun, me too.
And a bell
And then I start to drool!
I always think of the VR game these days
I think of a VR-only shooter where all the kids try to climb on me because I’m usually the tallest motherfucker in the game.
Nine nine!
Why is my mouth watering?