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And today, while reading about Pavlovian conditioning, I find that by doing this I ;ve been performing Pavlovian conditioning on myself. It called flavor-flavor conditioning. The experiment was first performed decades ago, with rats. The rats were given food flavored with banana and food flavored with almond. They were housed in cells equipped with 鈥?and I love this name 鈥?lickometers.
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