Hamlet

In the article entitled, Pavlov's Dogs, Thomas Creed discusses the different forms of conditioning, and what conditioning is. There are two different types of conditioning, Classical and Operant. Pavlovian Conditioning is the same as classical conditioning, which says that people display natural behaviors in response to stimuli that are reliably paired or associated with something else. Meaning people unconsciously react to certain things through learned behaviors.

First, Creed talks about the greatest example of Classical Conditioning, Ivan Pavlov's conditioning. Pavlov rang a bell every time he fed his dogs. Through a learned behavior, the dog's natural response was to salivate, even when there was no food present. The dog's response (salivation) to the bell is conditional upon the dog's experience with the pairing of the food and the bell.

The author gives a brief summary of Operant Conditioning, or Instrumental conditioning; which involves the change of behaviors due to the consequence of that behavior. When the response of something is followed by a positive consequence, the probability that the same behavior will happen again increases. When the response ends in a negative consequence, the future probability of that response happening again decreases. Operant conditioning is generally associated with the ideals of B.F. Skinner.

In addition, he points out that conditioning is achieved through a learned behavior. An example of conditioning in Brave New World would be how the babies of the lower caste learn actions that they would not like to repeat. When they look at something beautiful and they feel happy, they are punished by a loud noise and the electric floors shock them.

Moreover; he emphasizes the repetition is how conditioning is learned. The babies in BNW weren't just shocked once or twice, they received the conditioning several times. Ultimately that made them afraid of beauty, which