...and I've got Dorothy. Yes, that's right, I'm training my daughter to respond in a predictable manner to certain stimuli. Specifically, when it's time to eat and she's fussing and yelling, I bring the bottle in her field of view so that she can see it oriented vertically, and then I rotate it and bring the nipple towards her mouth. Today (and, I think, the last few times), she's quieted right down when she sees that bottle headed for her mouth.
So, what other science experiments should we perform on Dorothy next? ;-)
Posted by Tom Nugent at July 27, 2004 04:09 PMIt's not Pavlovian conditioning, it's learning the nature of cause and effect. :-)
Posted by: Elizabeth at July 27, 2004 08:04 PM