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This needs to be a well-defined psychological principle. I do stuff like this all the time (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It is a well defined psychological principle called Pavlovian response.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Probably closer to intermittent reward than Pavlovian conditioning! But yeah, definitely already "well defined" by psychology haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I would suggest that the stimulus was strong enough to condition after one trial, due to the repeat behavior.