On Oct 21, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Michael Scoles <[email protected]> wrote:
> What would happen if the child did not open his mouth? The problem seems > similar to distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary (conditioned) > eyeblinks in humans. Yes, I agree. I had to get to class, so I couldn't include some other thoughts I had at the time. But the distinction seems to involve more than just that between "classical" and operant conditioning. And the boy would have to know what a cookie was and that he had to open his mouth to eat the cookie 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 been translated in different ways. Jeff -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social/Behavioral Sciences Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Fax: (480) 423-6298 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJeffryRicker/timeline/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeffry-ricker/3b/511/438 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=47073 or send a blank email to leave-47073-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
