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From: tuba@ur-tut.UUCP (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <101@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 23:40:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 23:40:19 1986
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In article <118@graffiti.UUCP> buck@graffiti.UUCP (Lester Buck) writes:
>Sure enough, the cable went through one smart dog's cage. It had a 
>broken sheath, so some simple Pavlovian conditioning had taught this dog
>that whenever he relieved himself on that one spot, he was fed.

That's operant, or instrumental, or Skinnerian, conditioning.  Not Pavlovian.
It would be Pavlovian if, say, the VAX crashed now and again all by itself,
and flashed lights and sounded bells immediately prior to crashing.  Sorry
to be picky.  My code used to control experiments of both types.