At 1:17 PM +0000 4/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
with the usual quota of sophomoric mistakes....
It appears that Kansas is one of those states that buddies up with
the use of punishment.Authorities in Wichita,Kansas have given
permission to use taser guns on misbehaving High school students.
This brings back memories of Lovaas at KU in Lawrence who used
electric shocks as a means of extinguishing behavior in autistic kids.
Ivar Lovaas' procedure had nothing to do with extinction.
He used negative reinforcement (the escape/avoidance of
mild shock) to strengthen social behaviors in children who were
completely unresponsive to others (the original definition of
autistic).
It was used where nothing else had been effective, and did result
in the children becoming responsive to the behavior of others, at
which point positive reinforcement was substituted for negative.
Was Kansas the place where the term "behavioral engineering" emanated?
I don't know about emanations (that sounds more like the religious thread ;-)).
The term 'behavioral engineering' was coined by Ayllon and
Michael in 1959;
who were at the Univerity of Houston at the time.
Jack Michael had left Kansas because "the chairman of the department told me that they
didn't need a Skinnerian in the K.U psychology department"
(from his Web site).
I got my Masters from Wichita State and it appeared that there was (sic) lots
of behavioral mod proponents and theorists in the KU-KSU area.
This was later.
I know that Albert Bandura is from that area.
Others have answered this.
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The best argument against Intelligent
Design is that fact that
people believe in it.
* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
* Psychology Dept Minnesota State University *
* 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 *
people believe in it.
* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
* Psychology Dept Minnesota State University *
* 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 *
*
http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~pkbrando/ *
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