Read a bit on 'Classical conditioning' and found that Ivan Pavlov had done some interesting research on dogs, where he found that if the conditioned stimulus and unconditoned stimulus are repeatedly, eventually the two stimuli become associated and the organism begins to produce a behavioral response to the conditioned stimulus.
To cut the long story short, when you ring a bell, and if the dog associated the ringing of the bell with it getting food, it starts salivating.
Humans too, seem to be using this technique quite efficiently.
Just because of me performing well in school, Daddy took me out for a lot of ice-cream treats!
Got me thinking big-time!! Does it mean that I will have a need to perform, because I might start associating good performance with ice-creams?
But, what the heck! I got my choice of ice-creams!!
I am sure Pavlov's dogs were happy dogs.
I am!
