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Whose Decline And Fall? - Eysenck's Version Of Psychoanalysis

Liberato Santoro

Issue 18 — Spring 2000

70–86

According to Pavlov's experiments, behaviourally conditioned dogs salivate when stimulated by the ring of a bell - previously associated with meal-times and the simultaneous co-presence of food - even in the absence of food. An artificial stimulus triggers an established and reinforced nervous reflex. The ringing bell causes the dogs salivation, directly or without any mediation. There is an old joke that tells the story of two dogs meeting in Moscow.…

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