[Vision2020] A Tradition of Excellence? Not Really!

Art Deco art.deco.studios at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 15:45:36 PST 2012


"Electrifying the metal wire floors of rat and mice cages in laboratories,
and marking faces of children in classrooms, may well have short-term
behavioral effects on both the markees and the markers that are noticeable
and perhaps predictably replicable. They may also have longer-term effects
that are not so noticeable or desirable, even to those who don't look."

That is exactly what Skinner posits and provides evidence for:  Negative
reinforcement, if it works at all, generally only works in the short term
and creates far more long term consequences.

Skinner's critics often ignore the main findings of his work, choosing and
selecting only to focus on incomplete segments.

w.


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

> Electrifying the metal wire floors of rat and mice cages in laboratories,
> and marking faces of children in classrooms, may well have short-term
> behavioral effects on both the markees and the markers that are noticeable
> and perhaps predictably replicable. They may also have longer-term effects
> that are not so noticeable or desirable, even to those who don't look.
>



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