On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:34:14 -0700, Rick Stevens >I'm not sure what problem there would be with a bar to press or a button to >push in a crib. If you can teach pigeons to read that way > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ctJqjlrHA it should work on kids, too.
It's not a real problem but a problem of appearance. Some people might be really put off by seeing a child in an air crib pressing a bar or pushing a button to get a treat or something else. They might see this as treating infants as animals instead of human beings. It's a matter of perspective and interpretation. Humanistic psychologists of 1960-1970 vintage would probably howl about it. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: > [snip] > Part of the problem might be with the colloquial use of the term > "Skinner box". Traditionally, an operant chamber was informally > referred to as a Skinner box but when people started to refer to > the air crib as a Skinner box it is quite possible that people might > have though Deborah Skinner was being forced to bar press or > peck at a lit disk in order to get food, water, and/or attention. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=10902 or send a blank email to leave-10902-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
