On Mar 6, 2005, at 22:13, Sune Foldager wrote:
Gee... quit with the psycology already ;-) [...]
You do know I actually studied psychology, that humans evolved from animals with which we share a lot of our brain and that conditioning is well documented and has been for at least half a century?
We're not dogs [...]
I mentioned Pavlov's dogs because it's a classic experiment and about a hundred years old. A similar classic, that has often been used with humans is:
A human subject or an animal is subjected to an air puff directed to the eye, which elicits a blink reflex. If the air puff is repeatedly preceded by another stimulus, say a tone, the tone will eventually itself elicit a blink just before the air puff.
http://www.mphy.lu.se/avd/nf/hesslow/neuroscience/classcond.html
But it's nice of you to inform us that you are beyond the restraints of basic human physiology and think that software should therefor not take such things into consideration -- I OTOH do!