great post! hope i remember all this ;)

Most conditioning works on humans until they learn how to think a bit deeper about how to think and if they are the one controlling their own thoughts or if some external stimuli is controlling them. (meta-cognition/critical thinking skills) 

Granted, some people never even think to think about how they think.... and therefore they are basically controlled by external stimuli for the majority of their lives. Thanks for this post because I think that science is fun to think about. hehe :)

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Nice write up..I'm only aware of pavlov's and watson's experiment.. Good to know the rest. Keep steeming @suesa

when I hear the word memory I always remember the past

informative post, @suesa
thanks for your sharing

Its goods for memory

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Always a delight to read some facts on the regarding things, especially when they are on topics which touch all of us but are not something we typically consider.

I would imagine most of us still think memory is something we cannot study and practice, maybe affect a bit by eating "fish and stuff" :D

Great post vast knowledge thank you for sharing.

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>>As Steemit is largely inhabited by computer freaks

I thought i was the only one feeling this way.....

That definitely works on human. As a kid I hear ice cream van and starts salivating. With time I could pick off the sound of the ice cream van  from 7 miles off :)

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Wow!  This is really nice, bursting my brains...  When two things happen simultaneously everything we tend to see them as homogeneous and in a situation where only one is present we tend to visualize to other too.  Just like the metronome and food. 
Lovely post,  the ending got me.... 

Intriguing. Sometimes I think I have the worst memory or maybe the most weird. I can't seem to be ever good with faces and names so I mix up everything. 

Think about this, seeing a familiar face but you can't recall either where you met or their name. You confuse stories, names and the circumstances under which you met. It is the most embarrassing thing ever especially if they remember you perfectly.

I might not like how forgetful I get but its good to know how some things work in there. Awesome science lesson :)

I need someone to explain to me why I can remember the lyrics to hundreds of songs yet I forget that Monday is trash day!

Well I don't know about associating Steemit with computers.. crypto, blockchain technology perhaps? I associate it with people and community first but originally, I discovered steemit while researching cryptocurrency. So with that out of the way,.. You shared some interesting insights about Pavlovs' work that has been observed time and time again especially in the study of addictive behavior of every sort. This includes but also goes far beyond substance use or abuse. Even habits related to basic body functions, much like a dog  or cat preferring the same spot to eliminate via pheromone marking- homo-sapiens tend to feel more comfortable um.. dropping a little weight in places they have relieved themselves before. I don't know why I thought of that but I would not have done it without your inspiration, lol.  No offense intended!  :)

Outstanding post and narrative. Thank you for sharing Resteemed!

thanks for refreshing our memories with the memory experiments.

Fitting, as the World Memory Championship in Jakarta is about to start in a few days.

I think our society became so complex so quickly that our evolution did not keep the pace, we are not designed to remember all the things we have to remember these days. Luckily for us we learned to manufacture "external memories" which are books, notes and blog posts on steemit that work as an extention to our hippocampus (region of the brain where some of our memories are stored). Also the question is not just quantitative, we may store all our thoughts and experiences somewhere in our brains, the problem is also to retrieve these memories. We have a relational access to our memories, which means that memories are categorized by attributes, so every time you evoke a memory it will make other related memories surface, our thoughts work in a kind of tag system. :)

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I have 5 dogs and I use clicker training to teach them obedience.  I guess it is the same concept, when we start, we click, command, treat and repeat.  It doesn't take them long to connect the clicker sound to a reward. I should try it with my son...  :)

<p>I must say there was a great potential for a meme to be used here.
<img src="http://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/pavlov-that-name-rings-a-bell-dog.jpg"><br>
Anyways my bigger point of the reply is fish? I mean dogs, mice, cats... those make sense on how the experiment would work but fish?</p>
<blockquote>Later, Thorndike repeated the experiment with fish, chickens, and dogs. I will leave the question how he made that work to your imagination</blockquote>
<p>I think I will look into how he got fish to cooperate...<br>Anyways very good post, quite enjoyed it!</p>

A lot of these early experiments are integral to the field of animal and human behavior as well as memory so they’re worth understanding for multiple reasons.  Great work!