Pavlov’s dogs
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Noynoy’s P1.8-trillion budget for 2012 breezed through the House, courtesy of Speaker Sonny Belmonte and the pork-starved allies and foes alike in the chamber, proving anew correct Ivan Pavlov’s theory on conditioning, using his dog.
In Pavlov’s experiment on conditioned reflexes, he noticed that dogs tended to salivate before food was actually delivered to their mouths, a reaction which he called “psychic secretion.”
By using a bell, Pavlov conditioned his dogs to associate its ringing with food and after some time, dogs already salivated upon hearing the bell, thus his classic findings about stimulating reflexes.
Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, on the other hand, similarly used the pork barrel as the stimulant bell for congressmen to pass the 2012 budget without any considerable trouble from them..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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