单词 | pavlov's dog |
释义 | > as lemmasPavlov's dog 2. attributive and in the genitive, esp. in Pavlov's dog and variants. Used with reference to Pavlov's work, esp. the conditioning of the salivary reflexes of a dog to the mental stimulus of the sound of a bell. Cf. Pavlovian adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > [adjective] > to signal Pavlov1911 Pavlovian1922 1911 T. L. Stedman Pract. Med. Dict. 644/2 Pavloff method,..a quantitative study of the modifications of the salivary reflexes caused by psychic reactions. 1933 J. C. Flügel Hundred Years Psychol. xi. 208 He became much concerned with Pavlov's conditioned reflex and the psychology of food. 1967 Listener 3 Aug. 138/2 I had a kind of Pavlov-dog reaction, shaking with nerves, because I'd been very nervous when I'd done that first film nine years before. 1976 A. White Long Silence ii. 19 You're not a Pavlov dog, trained to bark when I ring a bell. You have a mind of your own. 2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Jan. 44/3 People who have experienced relief in medical settings or from ingesting a pill are primed, like Pavlov's dogs, to do the same again. < as lemmas |
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