Science and Human Behavior, Chapter 4: Reflexes and Conditioned Reflexes, Quote 3

“Only a quantitative description will make sure that there is no additional mental process in which the dog “associates the sound of the tone with the idea of food” or in which it salivates because it “expects” food to appear. Pavlov could dispense with concepts of this sort only when he could give a complete quantitative account of salivation in terms of the stimulus, the response, and the history of conditioning.” (pp. 54-55)

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