The owner of this adorable English Bulldog must have taken up Psychology 101! He sure knows a little bit about Classical Conditioning. It introduces items to dogs that will make them associate that particular item to food. In this case, it is the bell. The dog rings the bell, he is given food. The more he rings the bell, the more the owner feeds him food and eventually association takes place. The dog rings the bell, he gets food; bell = food. The dog will eventually start to salivate whenever he sees the bell.
This type of experiment and training eventually help us understand our dogs a little better. They don’t need to bark nor whine just to let us know that they are hungry. All they need to do is ring the bell. Let’s just hope that they don’t do this too often, thinking that they have room service, haha!
Dogs and psychology have made many discoveries in Behavioral Psychology and one famous experiment comes to mind which is Pavlov’s dogs. Through them he discovered classical conditioning or the Pavlovian conditioning theory which is basically what happened in this video clip – interesting, right?
