Pavlovian response
Example Sentences
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It’s like hearing the sizzle of fajitas being paraded through a dining room, creating a Pavlovian response.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2024
When big box stores and radio stations start playing the tune, it elicits a Pavlovian response to start shopping.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2022
“From the time that you get the ding on your Apple Watch that says, ‘New results are in your chart,’ it’s a sort of Pavlovian response of anxiety that kicks in,” Ms. Collins said.
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022
It is possible she just had a Pavlovian response to the word “Afghanistan.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2022
Obviously continual response to the music had developed within them an almost Pavlovian response to the noise, a response which they believed was pleasure.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
