....Then something very curious happened to Pavlov’s dogs. A rainstorm came upon the town and would not stop, and soon a nearby river crested its banks and began to flood the city streets. Water began to enter the laboratory were the dogs were kept and then began to flood the cages. The dogs became very alarmed as the water covered their paws and continued to rise, as there was no escape. By the time a research assistant arrived the dogs were in a panic. The water was chest deep and a few of the cages were floating. Some of the dogs had to be fully submerged in order to remove them from their cage; all of the dogs were traumatized by the event, and it was soon realized that the complex behaviors the animals had acquired had now been forgotten.

This gave us the term “brainwashing.....

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