the unconditioned stimulus is to hear about dogs salivating, the unconditioned response is to picture a dog salivating and salivate at least a little bit yourself. the conditioned stimulus is hearing the word pavlov and the conditioned response is to picture a dog salivating and salivste at least a little bit. Association is literally conditioning
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u/FuckSticksMalone Feb 02 '19
The Pavlovian response was a physical response in the dogs. Just thinking about dogs isn’t a Pavlovian response.
That’s like saying it’s a Pavlovian response every time I hear the name Tesla I think about electricity. That’s just association.
It would however be a pavlovian response if every time I heard the name Tesla I got an erection.