Pavlov’s Puppies

December 31st, 2004

Ever wonder why people like music that isn’t even good on any musical, rhythmic or intellectual ground? Must be conditioning for social acceptance; much like how Pavlov programmed his dogs to salivate for food with tones; social acceptance through meaningless sounds is almost an identical example.

(I wasn’t in the bath when I thought of this)


Update:
For those of you who don’t know who Ivan Pavlov was. He scientist who researched the concept of “conditioning” in which, he conditioned dogs into salivate for food with sounds. He did this by playing a sound at the time when the dog was fed and did this repeatedly, so when he played the sound the dog assumed it was going to be fed and began to salivate.


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