[post_page_title]Developing a Pavlovian response[/post_page_title]
In his famous series of experiments, physiologist Ivan Pavlov discovered the conditioned reflex when he got dogs to salivate at the mere sound of a buzzer that they had previously heard before receiving food.
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My old orange tabby Sam figured out if he pushed the glowing button on the power supply while I was playing Xbox live, I’d immediately start chasing him around the house
— W.Arthur Lewis (@TheCoachMcGuirk) November 6, 2019
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Of course, he was a mere human, and this guy’s tabby figured it out in a lot less time. His human, apparently, had a conditioned reflex of his own. If Sam wanted to be chased around the house – and he clearly did – he just needed to turn off the Xbox. It’s so simple a dog could understand it.
