{"id":217976,"date":"2025-07-15T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/pavlovs-dogs-were-conditioned-to-go-to-their-treat-why-do-some-animals-learn-to-interact-with-the-bell-instead"},"modified":"2025-07-15T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:11:09","slug":"pavlovs-dogs-were-conditioned-to-go-to-their-treat-why-do-some-animals-learn-to-interact-with-the-bell-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/pavlovs-dogs-were-conditioned-to-go-to-their-treat-why-do-some-animals-learn-to-interact-with-the-bell-instead","title":{"rendered":"Pavlov\u2019s dogs were conditioned to go to their treat; why do some animals learn to interact with the bell instead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pavlovs-dogs-were-conditioned-to-go-to-their-treat-why-do-some-animals-learn-to-interact-with-the-bell-instead.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>High school students learn that Pavlov\u2019s dogs were conditioned to associate the sound of a bell with getting food. The association was so strong that the dogs would begin to salivate when they heard the bell, before there was even a whiff of food. When they were finally presented with the food, they ate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school students learn that Pavlov\u2019s dogs were conditioned to associate the sound of a bell with getting food. The association was so strong that the dogs would begin to salivate when they heard the bell, before there was even a whiff of food. When they were finally presented with the food, they ate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}