On a slightly more serious note....
I spent fifty years shaping rats.
When I tried to shaped Sniffy as if it were a living rat, nothing
happened; it's a very poor simulation of the actual operant
conditioning process.
On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Marc Carter wrote:
Hi, All --
It's Friday before Spring break starts. I am on the edge of
checked-out. So!
Does anyone find it strange that Sniffy, a computer program
designed to teach people the principles of learning, has "Mind
Windows" so you can know what the virtual rat is thinking? I'm
having to fight to get my students to stop using those as evidence
for some phenomenon instead of showing me the behavior. It's
making me laugh.
Somehow I envision two or three generations of behaviorists
spinning in their graves...
Not in my grave yet ....
Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
[email protected]
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