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Author: calmestofdoves

Jun 12th 2015 at 7:50:36 PM

Oh wow, that's nearly a two-year time jump. This languished for two whole years because people thought the title was too boring?

Much as I miss TruffautWasRight, PavlovWasRight makes absolutely zero sense as a snowclone for this particular trope, which really is so straightforward that it deserves a completely straightforward name like Pavlovian Conditioning.

I don't see the issue with calling it Condition'''ing''', either, as a properly conditioned person is obviously a walking talking ''example'' of classical conditioning, and the -ing would be more general than the -ed, so, yeah. ClassicalConditioning seems a little more impersonal than PavlovianConditioning, so between the two I'd go with the second one.

If we're still desperate for a "unique" name, I'd try something like "Good Work, Pavlov!" Everybody knows Pavlov successfully conditioned his test subjects, so it seems clear enough ("good work, pavlov" = "someone has successfully pulled off classical conditioning") but isn't as Other Wiki-esque as the Adjective Noun format and has a bit of the same hat-tip feel as "X Was Right" without the completely erroneous implication that anybody ever thought he might've been ''wrong.''