Word: pavlovians
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...from Foreign to Financial, I'd settle down with my morning crossword puzzle until the first batch of copy came my way. There was never time to read the paper the way I'd like; inevitably, someone would interrupt me as I neared the Op-Ed page. Like a Pavlovian dog, an early morning editor would yell "Copy!" at the top of his lungs. This didn't mean he wanted a piece of copy, or a copy made of some article. Instead he wanted me, Joe Copy, to run an errand. The errand was usually Times-related, though I made...
...Hoffmann says. And he adds that some of this instinctive fear, a gut-level memory of 1969, persists in Faculty attitudes toward student activism. "If the South Africa issue mushroomed--though I don't think it would be the same because Bok is not Pusey--there would be a Pavlovian reaction," he notes...
Second Order Pavlovian Conditioning--Robert A. Rescora, Yale University, William James...
...hard to take: the writer-director's presentation of class warfare has the subtlety of a B western, and he willfully compromises the dramatic structure of 1900 to underscore his dialectic. Yet the movie does frequently take flight-whenever the director's fevered cinematic imagination overrules the Pavlovian reflexes of his radical conscience...
...Sirica fully realizes the implications of his decisions regarding the "Forgotten Cubans" [Sept. 24]. Their fates, not those of the high-ranking officials implicated in Watergate, will have the most far-reaching effects on the personal lives of Americans. Are we to be programmed and made to perform like Pavlovian dogs and then condemned for what we do at someone else's whim and fancy? If so, we can only choose to balk, question and refuse to obey whenever we perceive the slightest lack of confidence or doubt in the wisdom of those rightfully ordained to be our superiors...