[tips] Facebook and Variable Interval Schedules
Parents know how hard it can be for kids to stay away from their social media connections - be it facebook, instagram or Snapchat. As soon as my 15-year old gets out of swim practice it’s the first thing he does. After all, there might be a message for him. This would be variable interval reinforcement if I’m correct - he doesn’t have to actually do anything but a new message (reinforcer) might have arrived. It seems pretty darn powerful, which seems weird because I’ve always thought of variable interval reinforcers as weak. Thoughts? Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=45725 or send a blank email to leave-45725-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Facebook and Variable Interval Schedules
I have a video of an interview of Skinner talking about variable ratio schedules as being well exemplified by slot machines. Wouldn't checking for messages be the same thing? Sometimes you get one, sometimes you don't. But not getting one doesn't make you less likely to check. And *sometimes* getting one makes you more likely to check. Beth Benoit Plymouth State University Plymouth, New Hampshire On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.com wrote: Parents know how hard it can be for kids to stay away from their social media connections - be it facebook, instagram or Snapchat. As soon as my 15-year old gets out of swim practice it’s the first thing he does. After all, there might be a message for him. This would be variable interval reinforcement if I’m correct - he doesn’t have to actually do anything but a new message (reinforcer) might have arrived. It seems pretty darn powerful, which seems weird because I’ve always thought of variable interval reinforcers as weak. Thoughts? Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: beth.ben...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72n=Tl=tipso=45725 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-45725-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=45726 or send a blank email to leave-45726-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Facebook and Variable Interval Schedules
To summarize: A variable -ratio- reinforcement schedule typically maintains a large number of responses at a high rate of response. There is a correspondence between the frequency of response and the frequency of reinforcement. A variable -interval- schedule, on the other hand, does not have any pay off for a high rate of response; one above the minimum needed to receive the number of reinforcers specified by the schedule. So the rate of responding is much lower than that maintained by a ratio schedule. However, due to the unpredictability of a specific response being reinforced, responding is very persistent — resistance to extinction is quite high, consistent with Michael’s observation of his son’s behavior of checking his messages (he is doing -something-, although the response cost is quite low). So VI schedule reinforcement is weak if measured by rate or number of responses, but strong if measured by resistance to extinction. On Jul 6, 2015, at 5:41 PM, Beth Benoit beth.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I have a video of an interview of Skinner talking about variable ratio schedules as being well exemplified by slot machines. Wouldn't checking for messages be the same thing? Sometimes you get one, sometimes you don't. But not getting one doesn't make you less likely to check. And sometimes getting one makes you more likely to check. Beth Benoit Plymouth State University Plymouth, New Hampshire On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.com wrote: Parents know how hard it can be for kids to stay away from their social media connections - be it facebook, instagram or Snapchat. As soon as my 15-year old gets out of swim practice it’s the first thing he does. After all, there might be a message for him. This would be variable interval reinforcement if I’m correct - he doesn’t have to actually do anything but a new message (reinforcer) might have arrived. It seems pretty darn powerful, which seems weird because I’ve always thought of variable interval reinforcers as weak. Thoughts? Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt Paul Brandon 10 Crown Hill Lane Mankato, MN 56001 pkbra...@hickorytech.net --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=45728 or send a blank email to leave-45728-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE:[tips] Ritberger Personality and Colour
Google scholar, psychinfo and a bing search yielded nothing. I did take the online test and my scores were 11, 10, 11, 10. It says I'm supposed to focus on the highest outcome. Hmmm. I suspect this is ripe for some student to examine more closely, maybe be correlating with Big-5? Maybe on some criterion variable? Seems like it would be a good one to get a publication out of for a student. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492 tay...@sandiego.edu From: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest [tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu] Subject: Ritberger Personality and Colour From: Jim Clark j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 04:05:17 + Hi I wonder if there is any solid evaluation or legitimate review of Ritberger's (popular it seems) ideas about personality and colour? Thanks Jim James M. Clark Professor and Chair of Psychology U of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=45718 or send a blank email to leave-45718-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Relevance of MarketingPap
I had not heard of Ritberger or her color analyses of personality. She has a sophisticated marketing scheme with blogs, websites, Facebook page,etc. you can check ritberger.com and other sites where her products, seminars,etc., are available. She describes herself as radio host, author and innovative leader in fields as personality behavioral psychology and behavioral medicine. She offers comforting phrases that are the fodder of shared Facebook posting. You too can become certified and licensed to present your own training seminars applying her color analyses to solve diverse social, personal, and organizational problems. One can certainly use such folks in class to teach critical thinking (e.g.,Barnum effect and hindsight fitting), and how quackery can develop a following, in Social Psych to discuss social influence and marketing, and in Clinical and Ethics classes to explore the marketing of treatments and services (as also the role of pseudoscience and quackery). In Personality classes her ideas might be explored and compared to several classic authors presented there. I would think she would be very successful, but it would be interesting to see some comparative data on such things. Would legitimate professional psychotherapists or popular psychologists be jealous of her success or marketing sophistication? Andask our classes, what's the harm? G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=45717 or send a blank email to leave-45717-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: Re:[tips] Ritberger Personality and Colour
Hi Thanks Mike ... very enlightening history. I too had done a search on psycinfo and found naught. One of the ironies given her flaky (?) views is that she describes herself as a behavioral psychologist, and a renowned one at that. Do people who are clearly divorced from science actually see themselves as being scientific, or just making associations for monetary reasons? Take care Jim -Original Message- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] Sent: July-06-15 4:28 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: Re:[tips] Ritberger Personality and Colour On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 04:05:17 +, Jim Clark wrote: Hi I wonder if there is any solid evaluation or legitimate review of Ritberger's (popular it seems) ideas about personality and colour? Do you mean this person? |Carol Ritberger, 51, Fair Oaks, CA | |Education/training. Ph.D. in religious philosophy from Life Church |Ministries in Modesto, CA. Ritberger spent much of her adult life |conducting team-building training classes for corporations. While |eating a steak dinner in a restaurant, she suddenly went into |convulsions and stopped breathing. |Doctors believe she had an allergic reaction. When she was |resuscitated, she saw light around people. The medical diagnosis was |that I was without oxygen to the brain long enough that it could have |caused temporary visual impairment, Ritberger says. The doctors say |my eyes let in too much light. She says that's when she began seeing |the human aura. | |Books: Your Personality Your Health, published by Hay House this fall. | |Fees: $125 per 90-minute reading by phone or in person. Selfr-eported |earnings of $72,000 a year. | |Method I call myself a bioenergetic diagnostician. I read the energy |of the body. I can see the aura. I can also see inside the body-vital |organs, tissue, muscle structure, skeletal structure. When an organ is |not functioning properly, it throws up an exaggerated amount of red. If |it's because of an emotional imbalance, it's red-orange; |if it has a psychological root cause, it's yellow-orange. From: A Who's Who of Medical Intuitives. Good Housekeeping 07 1998: 108. ProQuest. Web. 6 July 2015 . NOTE: If you find that a person does not publish in academic journals but only in books, it's a good idea to do a search of newspapers to find if there are any book reviews or news articles. Proquest has a fairly good database of historical and current newspapers. A Google search will help find blogs and websites -- anyone know a better way to search blogs? Ritberger does not show up on PscyInfo or Google Scholar or Jstor. I did manage to find a single dissertation that cited her and here is the reference for it: Ritberger, C. (1999). Interview with Carol Ritberger, Ph.D., Medical Intuitive. Retrieved February 14, 2004, from http://www.spiritseeker.com/dec-jan99//ritberg2.htm Unfortunately, the website (Spiritseeker) no longer has this on its website. According to Amazon, here's what she published in the popular press: http://www.amazon.com/Carol- Ritberger/e/B001JRVH0U/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1436188390sr=1-2-ent In summary, no, I don't think that there is a critical review of Ritberger's theory though some of the skeptics sources might have something. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9; n=Tl=tipso=45715 or send a blank email to leave-45715- 13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=45720 or send a blank email to leave-45720-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
