Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Pavlovian
- Based on the theories of Ivan Pavlov who experimented with stimulating automatic responses in dogs.
- A well-defined experimental paradigm to study simple associations between two stimuli. Such 'associative learning' is thought to be an elemental building block of more complex, experience-dependent behaviours.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Saturday, March 10, 2007
smarmy
- unpleasantly and insincerely flattering, friendly, or groveling
- buttery: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"
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