... very close in time to the unconditioned stimulus, if the bell louder, or if the dog was trained on larger pieces of meat the amount of salivation would be larger. This discovery was very important because the conditioned reflex was basic to the understanding of the mechanism of change in human and animal behavior.Thus scientists came to understand that ... demonstrated this system of associations. Association is "mental connection between ideas." These associations were not presented at birth; they were developed through experience -they were learned-hence the relationship between stimu...

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