Classical Conditioning

JBuk said:
I would think the body would do something similar to the salivation, ie get excited at the prospect of the buzz , but not actually be anything like the effect of the drug
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pretty much this, as I said before, you'd probably just end up craving drugs all the more, probably have the complete opposite effect desired for rehab

JBuk said:
Is it food or a certain ingredient you crave? ie sugar

I find now that I don't eat sugar or carbs much I don't crave anything or feel hungry that often
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It's been proven in studies that children growing up on sugary foods have a major addiction to it, and has been likened to drug addiction in some cases
 
Malakite said:
Now if you were to condition this response to say a piece of music would it be possible to experience a physical response similar to a 'high'?
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I get tingling shivers down my spine when listening to a really good bit of music, and yeah, it feels good man, but its not like I can just stick that on a loop and experience it constantly, it wears off after the 3rd or 4th repeat in a single sitting. The effect will return if I leave off listening to it for a few days of course.
 
JBuk said:
Is it food or a certain ingredient you crave? ie sugar

I find now that I don't eat sugar or carbs much I don't crave anything or feel hungry that often
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:confused: It was a joke based on the fact you would die without eatting... :(

For the record I eat healthy, and don't really like sweet stuff / junk food. :p
 
I don't ringing a bell would be anywhere near enough of of a stimulus to give me the energy to dance my **** off all night.
 
Conditioning is quite an interesting topic, and music is certainly a great way or jogging your memory. I'm sure it could be used for conditioning, in fact that suicide scene from Clockwork Orange springs to mind...

I remember reading somewhere that your brain uses 2 completely different parts of your brain when listening to music, and even if you have music on in the background, it still seems to dominate...

In fact I remember one particular holiday where a song was on a lot, and whenever I hear this song again, I remember the holiday really vividly, it's can be really powerful.

Other times standing in front of a huge stack of speakers with the right sort of music can put me in a certain state of mind, without the aid of Garys or anything else like that...

People are also experimenting with using music in order to treat the symptoms of memory proplems/alzheimer's...
 
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Classical and Operant conditioning, Pavlov's dogs, Skinner's rats, ahh bringing it all back from my A-Levels and Degree in Psychology haha.

I think another thing to consider would be that it has to be the same piece of music. Music in general wouldn't be enough to obtain the response needed.
Also the fact that drugs actually have quite a strong physiological effect on us, compared to food which just doesn't (well not to the same extent as drugs).
 
Read more on Pavlov's dogs, particulary the criticisms of the theory. It's quite flawed in some respects :) Also it would only, if at all work on those addicts who had a major pyschological dependance in the first place as the relationship worked for the dogs due to food being their main desire, although its quite a interesting idea ... perhaps someone should do the research if not for those pesky ethical dilemia's :P
 
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