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Author: calmestofdoves

Jun 12th 2015 at 9:40:01 PM

After attempting to do a massive ''massive'' revamp of this trope, I've come to the conclusion we've been going about this all wrong. The average person is terrible at remembering the difference between classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and just doing things on autopilot because that's how you did them the last thirty times, so there really shouldn't be a page dedicated solely to classical conditioning because it'll inevitably get filled with examples that are other types.

Instead, there should be a trope page about '''behavioral conditioning''', in general, with explanations of the various types for those who are interested, but mostly just an umbrella page for any circumstance where someone's been conditioned to do something or expect something.

We could easily call it {{BF Skinner Was Right}}. That would be perfect, since he's the father of Behaviorism and believed that free will was an illusion and all behavior was the result of various types of conditioning. But BehavioralConditioning or some variant on that would also work. Maybe just have both of those go to the same trope page, like {{Truffaut Was Right}} and DoNotDoThisCoolThing.