gence drives educational achievement
> as certain theorists assert). In addition, household income accounts
> for only 7% of the variance in the differences which some might consider
> a unexpected low amount. I guess this all goes to show that your
> genetic ancestry
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was talking about intervening variables (a mechanism mediating
between environmental variables and behavior), while Skinner was talking about
independent, directly observable variables (environment, history) as better
predictors of behavior.
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portunities to practice. I've already talked about hits, misses, false
> alarms, and correct rejections in class, and using payoffs to manipulate
> response criteria, now I want to make it all applicable.I welcome any and all
> ideas.
>
> Thank you very much.
> Carol
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Not exactly a Eureka! moment.
>
>
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25491047?utm_content=buffer077fa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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> Chris
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> On Dec 19, 2015, at 2:15 PM, "Paul Brandon" wrote:
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> More to the point, would they have hired her if she had expressed support
>> for one of those groups
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> On Dec 19, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Paul Brandon wrote:
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>> Mike—
>> I assume that -you- have read Wheaton’s statement; I’m less sure about other
>> readers
:18 AM, Mike Palij wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:47:28 -0600, Paul Brandon wrote:
>> If you read the Wheaton College statement of faith that
>> you’ve linked to,
>
> Paul, of course I read the statement of faith -- do you think
> I post links to sites that I don&
hold that Islam
does not worship the same god as they do, and that by equating the god of Islam
with the God of Wheaton, Dr. Hawkins was violating the terms of her contract.
On Dec 16, 2015, at 10:08 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:44:20 -0800, Paul Brandon wrote:>
>
t; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions
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ts, here’s the author of the book on Youtube:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eYrhGeffc
>
> Anyone else think that this is really just behavior mod “re-packaged”?
>
>
> Michael
>
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xes."
> It is a term that indicates strengthening of a conditioned reflex, typically
> tied to the number of pairings.
>
> Go to Lecture III in Conditioned Reflexes on Chris Green's psychclassics web
> site and have your browser do a search on "reinforce." Y
kie before he could ever be
> reinforced for opening his mouth.
>
> One other thing: the term "reinforcement" was used in the film. It would have
> had to be translated into English from the original Russian subtitles, which
> makes me wonder if the term could have bee
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the nobel prize Michael P reviewed
> nicely. Shows how it can be misinterpreted and abused by the naturopathy
> industry, not surprisingly.
>
> https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/no-the-nobel-prize-does-not-validate-naturopathy-or-herbalism/
>
> Take care
> Jim
Paul
t go beyond
> "this is just an example of the self-correcting nature of science".
>
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
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d that some dogs will enter the “bell area” and allow the
> bell to ring until the battery on their shock collar dies out. Then the dog
> simply walks past the perimeter unshocked.
>
> My family of course said that the dog was “smart”. How would a behaviorist
> explain this?
c?
>> (You'll become a social media extrovert and smartphone addict like the rest
>> of them.)
>>
>> --> Mike O.
>> Monroe Community College
>>
>> On 7/14/15 1:00 AM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest
>> wrote:
&g
. 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 (reinf
, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Michael Britt
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Parents know how hard it can be for kids to stay away from their social
>>> media connections - be it faceb
variable interval reinforcers as weak. Thoughts?
>
> Michael
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s, see:
>> http://www.people.com/article/fox-news-anchor-shepard-smith-apologizes-false-shooting-report
>>
>>> Btw,does Loftus appreciate being called Liz?
>>
>> I believe that friends and relatives call her Beth. Scott L can confirm.
>> However, you
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ducators to impose these devices on the classroom (if even
>> a classroom remains) are having their campaigns financed by the very people
>> who are hoping to make a buck by replacing real teachers with their devices.
>> That is the problem. Not Netwon and not mechanism.
>&g
t; For one source on this, see the link to the Los Angeles Times:
> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-corinthian-shutdown-20150427-story.html#page=1
> and HuffPo
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/26/corinthian-colleges-closing_n_7147380.html
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ors in expectations and standards (i.e.,
> rigor of the course), even when they all are teaching a course that is
> nominally the same.
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>> Harry Harlow must be turning over in his grave.
>
He’d probably see some similarity between his favorite subjects and the current
Governor of Wisconsin.
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wish to claim under the 10 year
> anti zombie guarantee,"
>
> Make sure you still have a s#!tload of ammunition with you.
> And practice head shots.
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erns me with
> coin tossing).
>
> Based on what I was able to understand of their conclusions, both groups of
> researchers seemed to be stating that their findings had high internal
> validity, but they didn't think they would generalize to the types of
> situations in wh
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>
> Strzałko, J., Grabski, J., Stefański, A., Perlikowski, P., & Kapitaniak, T.
> (2008). Dynamics of coin tossing is predictable. Physics reports, 469(2),
> 59-92. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2008.08.003
> PDF here:
> http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~synchron/w
NPR has a full account at:
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On Feb 5, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:
> Since he kept notes on his activities,
> ‘lying’ might be a better term.
>
> On Feb 5
> Brian Wlilliams of NBC News told the military newspaper Stars & Stripes in a
> story published Wednesday that he "misremembered" the story and was sorry for
> repeating it.
>
> Jim Matiya
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t; directly examined (i.e., in person) and is based only on video, second
> hand accounts, and other sources that may be subject to error.
>
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> broke, b) your car is still not close enough to the wires. This last excuse
> sounds like a "you didn't believe hard enough" explanation for psychic
> phenomenon. Anyway, I'm going to discuss this in class this week as an
> example
> of confirmation bias.
Pau
light green. Also, I mentioned that you probably
>> don't notice or remember the times when you creep up slowly to the light and
>> it does NOT turn green. You probably dismiss those times as simply a time
>> either when a) the wires are broke, b) your car is still not cl
er than no treatment
> which may encourage a negative attributional style supporting the view
> that there will never be an effective treatment for their condition.
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t; I feel like calling shenanigans on the data. ;-)
> NOTE #2: What's up with Utah?
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disagree with must be meant as a
personal insult.
On Jan 11, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 08:23:25 -0800,Paul Brandon wrote:
>>> On Jan 10, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
>>> (1) I didn't include the article because it was a rigorous r
On Jan 10, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 11:40:13 -0800, Paul Brandon wrote:
>> Haven't read the whole article you cite, but a quick sampling indicates some
>> glaring misstatements of Skinner's positions, both scientific and
>> philos
ion.
>> And the result is living in society with far less abject poverty
>> and need (and all the socially undesirable behavior that comes
>> with that).
>>
>> "Crazy socialist propaganda" off.
>> Chris
>> …..
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what Skinner would do.
>>
>> http://youtu.be/jlZKeKQ8yX0
>
> A few points:
>
> (1) I see that Britt is asking the question based on the popular Christian
> question "What Would Jesus Do?" And, as Paul Brandon has pointed
> out subsequently in this thread, th
result in the homeless person doing things
> to change their lives for the better? Is it best to have a “wait and see”
> attitude? I think Skinner would say no. What might Skinner suggest we do
> once people are in these new homes to encourage them to rebuild their lives?
>
>
learning experience. What is it about women's clothing that some men
> find so appealing?
>
>
> Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
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ateurs because
> of their "Golly Gee! Let's Take This Shot!" attitude -- your average
> tourist who thought it was great taking photos on the subway without
> asking anyone not in their group if they minded being in the picture.
> I counted down the stations to my
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One popular media
>> article that points out some of the problems with this view is
>> an Neurohacks article on the BBC website; see:
>>
>> http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141216-can-you-live-with-half-a-brain
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her really works, but I thought it was worth a try.
>
> Happy to get input on this map:
>
> http://bitly.com/TortureAndKohlberg
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> Michael
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> White/Caucasian, another issue for future research to address.
>
> For stat mavens, the analysis section should be of some interest
> especially on the issue of missing data -- imputation was used
> for a variety of variables under the assumption that the data was
> missing
>
>
>> I am also aware of the term ante-dating
>> response.
>> So what's what.
>
> See
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./j.2044-8295.1959.tb00676.x/abstract
>
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pkb
ay be obscuring large
>> differences; and 4) the gravity of an increased risk of Type I error is
>> diminished in light of the benefit of decreasing the risk of a Type II error
>> (Labovitz, 1968; Lai, 1973).”
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Because of the work you made
>> possible…"
>> “You broke every grassroots fundraising record we have -- and then some.”
>>
>> To be fair, they also said, “So we’ll just come out and say it: last night
>> was rough.”
>>
>> If I was the one writin
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ent (but not giving
>>> credit to Skinner naturally)
>>>
>>> In an example of negative reinforcement that most students should be
>>> able to recognize: YouTube might remove ads if you pay a fee. So:
>>>
>>> If you do this: pay a fee
>>>
> If you do this: pay a fee
> They’ll do this: remove ads (take away a negative thing)
>
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>>> through operant (instrumental) and classical conditioning. This takes
>>> it
>>> out of the disease model framework over into the habit model, as also
>>> supported in Rezni
p://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/the-points-interview-michael-reznicek/
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lgernon"
> and/or the movie "Charly" and may have used one or the other in
> one of their classes. It is a remarkable work of fiction that helps
> to provide a unique perspective on the meaning of intelligence.
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ndicated in the following tweet:
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> Do
raduates (M age = 20.52
> years, SD = 2.55) confirmed the factor structure of each subscale with
> excellent fit statistics. The FOS should allow researchers and clinicians to
> better understand why women fake orgasm. Deepening this understanding may
> serve future research examining sexual d
fictional example of such a treatment but is any
> treatment really possible? If effective treatments for psychopathy
> can be developed, does it make more sense for putting them
> in prison for life for crimes like murder? If no effective treatments
> can be found, does it make more se
kdown. China too: an agrarian monarchy (having nothing in
> common with the conditions Marx had outlined for communist revolution)
> overthrown by a brutal, homicidal tyrant who would have taken up any label at
> all so long as it enabled him to consolidate personal wealth and power.
>
On Apr 11, 2014, at 10:54 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:
>
>> The problem is that there haven't been any real world examples of societies
>> that met the classic definitions of socialism, in which all property is
>> owned by the State.
>>
This was my point -- that all r
at 7:54 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:
>
>> Also, while you could refer to the social structure as 'collective' in that
>> it was a small community with a common goal, it lacked one defining feature
>> of socialism: lack of individual ownership.
>>
>
>
feature of
socialism: lack of individual ownership.
Walden II was more of a corporate structure, with individual members as
shareholders.
In fact, if I remember correctly, members had the option of leaving and taking
the value of their shares with them.
It was definitely sui generis.
On Apr 11, 20
nd About Behaviorism)
was that we cannot afford the concept of philosophical or theological freedom
(as opposed to political or social freedom) then popular.
> Closer to Erich Fromm's "Escape From Freedom."
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>> chri...@yorku.ca
>> http://www.yorku.ca/christo
>>
>> On Feb 23, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Louis Eugene Schmier
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Read Tom Friedman's OpEd piece in today's NY Times. It's a must read. You
s in the 75+ years since he actually used it.) Also, it might
> > not have been thought proper to smoke in the presence of ladies (which most
> > of Freud's clients were) in early 20th-century Vienna. One of the reasons
> > Titchener gave for not permitting women into The E
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>> On Feb 22, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Paul Brandon wrote:
>>
>> There are some Scots enclaves around here where curling is a big thing.
>> Probably where the Canadians got it, eh?
>>
>
ly humiliating is that you Canadians also beat out us
>> Americans in curling, which isn't even a sport.
>
> Yeah, kind of like NASCAR, eh? :-)
>
> Chris
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>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Paul Brandon wrote:
>>
>> As an alternative way of assigning grades, I used a unit mastery system
>> where students retested on a unit until they mastered it, then (and only
>> then) proceeded to the next unit.
ease out from merit/ability to succeed in higher education.
>>>
>>> Nancy Melucci
>>> Long Beach City College
>>> Long Beach CA
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Mike Wiliams
>>> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
>
s a measurement device. What
>>
>> is their reliability and validity as measures of performance. Somehow
>>
>> the college board and SAT makers get the scrutiny that we don't apply to
>>
>> ourselves as grade makers. The error goes both ways.
Paul Brando
hey-shouldn-t
>
> I did a quick peek at their figures, and found (Figure 40) that, as I
> suspected, the combined use of grades and SAT scores predicted more variance
> than either alone. If you had to choose between them, their data shows grades
> a better predictor but that should n
> than social scientists | Inside Higher Ed
>
> Let the games begin!
>
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/12/paper-says-physical-scientists-smarter-and-less-religious-social-scientists
>
> Chris
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This is news?
On Feb 12, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Christopher Green wrote:
> Let the games begin!
>
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/12/paper-says-physical-scientists-smarter-and-less-religious-social-scientists
>
> Chris
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rect indication of danger because of
> the parent-child relationship.
>
> I hope I'm communicating this in a way that makes sense. If so, what are your
> thoughts on this: is it better conceptualized as vicarious or classical
> conditioning?
>
> Best,
> Jeff
b and use it mostly for
> demonstration purposes (e.g., Open House). We’re thinking of upgrading to
> the newer version and I wonder if anyone has found any difference
> (improvements?). Or is it mostly just compatibility with newer operating
> systems?
>
> Thanks
>
I believe that there already is one.
On Feb 2, 2014, at 7:10 AM, Louis Eugene Schmier wrote:
> A plague on that stupid groundhog!
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FTER THE FACT on whether research
> that shows many of its athletes to be functionally illiterate requires
> oversight.
>
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/20/u-north-carolina-shuts-down-whistle-blower-athletes
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ic interest.
>>
>> Miguel
>>
>> - Original Message -
>> From: "Christopher Green"
>> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
>>
>> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 8:44:25 AM
>> Subject: [tips]
its athletes to be functionally illiterate requires
> oversight.
>
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/20/u-north-carolina-shuts-down-whistle-blower-athletes
>
> Sheesh!
> Chris
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-revelatory when you get to what you
>> say to friends. The use of humor also often has predictable
>> consequences, given particular environmental situations, which will
>> clearly have an effect on the use of humor in these situations in the
>> future. Analyzing the use of humor in
>> animal
>>>> behavior will tell us little if anything about the experience of humor.
>>>>
>>>> If one only limits consideration of humor to humans, I suspect that one
>>>> can
>>>> reduce the "joke situation" or "comedic s
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> Cc: Michael Palij
> Subject: Re:[tips] While we are on the topic of Skinner
>
> ... A behavioral account might be relevant to certain situations but are
> unlikely in others (e.g., how would a behaviorist explain satire?).
Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota S
reports of side effects to accumulate.
On Jan 16, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Mike Palij wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:43:34 -0800, Paul Brandon wrote:
> >Or maybe a really good situation, depending upon why the articles
> >were retracted.
>
> Allow me to retort:
>
> (1) One thin
is clear that 80-90% of
> the articles are retractions (some have "article withdrawn" instead).
>
> The truly weird part is that in the first 200 articles listed (sorted
> by recently added) the oldest article is from August 2012 --
> the rest of the articles are retractions
should be emitted; TV studio
> audience have an "applause" sign go as a reminder that they need to clap).
>
> This does leave unanswered why certain classes of jokes (e.g., fart jokes)
> are considered HILARIOUS by some people but disgusting by others;
> I gu
r (he
had something to say about just about everything); I'll have to take a look.
On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Carol DeVolder wrote:
> What sources should I look at to find a behaviorist view of laughter, mirth,
> and humor? I realize I'm being vague--that's on purpose. :)
ca/christo/
> =
>
> On 2014-01-15, at 10:09 AM, Paul Brandon wrote:
>
>>
>> And (at least as of ten years ago) I knew people using 'air cribs' (the
>> climate controlled crib described in 'Baby in a Box').
>> There
hter's crib project as well
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
>
>
>
> ==
> John W. Kulig, Ph.D.
> Professor of Psychology
> Coordinator, Psychology Honors
> Plymouth State University
> Plymouth NH 03264
> ==
Paul Brandon
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of the podcast to present a
> different (behavioral) explanation for the dog's behavior. Probably won't be
> well received, because most of us like to anthropomorphize our pets, but will
> stimulate discussion anyway.
>
> Michael
>
> Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
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