Ivan Pavlov who was famous for his conditioning study in which he rang a bell before feeding dogs. He would ring a bell everyday and then feed his dogs. THe dogs became away that when the bell was rung, food was near and began to salivate... After a while he would ring the bell and not feed the dogs. They would still salivate, proving that all animals could be trained or conditioned to expect a consequence on the results of previous experience.
Before he died in 1936 he wanted to widen his study to children and expand his number of test cases from 6 to 200 million. So he invented Mr. Softie. He would have someone drive around in a big white truck and play a theme song he invented right before he would serve all the children in the neighborhood Ice Cream. Like his previous study, all the children would salivate when the theme song was played.
Before he died in 1936 he wanted to widen his study to children and expand his number of test cases from 6 to 200 million. So he invented Mr. Softie. He would have someone drive around in a big white truck and play a theme song he invented right before he would serve all the children in the neighborhood Ice Cream. Like his previous study, all the children would salivate when the theme song was played.
