[tips] How Would a Behaviorist Explain This?

Maybe this is easier than I think but I am curious: so we all know about those “invisible fences” that will shock your dog - who is wearing a “shock collar” - when it tries to go past a certain perimeter around your house (positive punishment, right?). But lately I’ve heard about this: apparent

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Re: [tips] How Would a Behaviorist Explain This?

Hi Michael: Likely the dog has learned in the past that the presence of the bell indicates that shock will happen and that the absence of bell indicates the absence of shock. My speculation would be that the owners did not change the battery before it died on previous occasions. This effect

Re: [tips] How Would a Behaviorist Explain This?

First, I would want more detailed observation (video or detailed log) to know exactly what was happening. The basic situation appears to be signaled avoidance behavior paired with positive reinforcement at the end of the sequence. The dog appears to have acquired a more extensive avoidance repert

Re: [tips] How Would a Behaviorist Explain This?

Just a related observation-we have used an invisible fence with two dogs now (I know, small N), but what was interesting to me was their behavior during acquisition. While we have a fairly large perimeter for the dogs, once they had learned that going X far resulted in the beep and then the shock,

Re: [tips] tips digest: August 27, 2015

Hmmm, "TIPS?" I know it is an acronym, but this is a place to share teaching tips. Why would that ever be distasteful? On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Annette Taylor wrote: > See below: I find it a hard call...I remember being a newly minted intro > professor and sometimes being overwhelmed

[tips] PSYC failed the replication test

This article is going on the reading list for my grad students in stats. Once we have covered power and publication biases this article should, I hope, lead to some lively discussion. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716 Cheers, [East Ca

RE:[tips] PSYC failed the replication test

It is true that we only got a D+ :( but 68% is quite a bit higher :) than some of the estimates of reproducibility I have heard bandied about (which are close to zero). Rick Dr. Rick Froman Professor of Psychology Box 3519 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam S

RE:[tips] PSYC failed the replication test

On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:18:21 -0700, Rick Froman wrote: It is true that we only got a D+ :( but 68% is quite a bit higher :) than some of the estimates of reproducibility I have heard bandied about (which are close to zero). Rick, I think you are manifesting a positivity bias. ;-) That is, I th

RE:[tips] PSYC failed the replication test

You all might find an article published on the Five Thirty Eight website (link http://fivethirtyeight.com) useful when talking about this issue with students. The article includes a very nice interactive demonstration of p-hacking that I think will help students to understand that concept. Beyo

Re: [tips] PSYC failed the replication test

Hi Some notable lapses I think. No mention of meta-analysis that I saw. And the Science editor's comment that marginal results not be published is exactly wrong. Every finding should be published so that studies can be aggregated. Psychology made a big mistake when it turned from small papers c

Re: [tips] PSYC failed the replication test

If it wasn't clear I was responding to the replication issue, primarily on the basis of a summary in a summary posted in a higher education newsletter. I will now belatedly read the full paper. Jim Sent from my iPhone On Aug 28, 2015, at 2:41 PM, "Jim Clark" mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca>> wrot

Re: [tips] PSYC failed the replication test

Here's the summary https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/08/28/landmark-study-suggests-most-psychology-studies-dont-yield-reproducible-results?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=11c198e085-DNU20150828&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-11c198e085-197432805 Sent from my iPhone On Au

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