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… died in service to the nation. Fast forward to the dark days of the Second World War. B. F. Skinner takes a memorable train ride across the American Midwest that yielded the following recollection: “I was looking out the window as I speculated … about these possibilities, and I saw a flock of birds lifting and wheeling in formation as they flew alongside the train. Suddenly I saw them as “devices” with excellent vision and extraordinary maneuverability. Could they not guide a missile? Was the answer to the problem waiting for me in my own backyard?” (The shaping of a behaviorist, 1979, p. 241). The possibilities about which he was …
… overlooked by Mr. Glass, who proceeded to investigate. There was much debate and questioning as to whether the listener’s claim was true (it was), and if so would it be possible, really, to pass off that lowly body part as a well-loved Italian … with the pig (a nice touch). What I liked about it was that the show’s host first sought the data to support the wild claim and thereafter stopped talking about rumors and possibilities and questioning and hypotheticals and put the matter to an … parts or other even more important things. Show me the data! I end by noting that hearing the story made me happy to remain a vegetarian. [Click here to listen to the original story] … A listener recently told Ira Glass, host of the NPR show …
… Do You Really Want People to Fail? Is that how you teach persistence, resilience and grit? This is another story that just drives me crazy! I have read several articles and blogs about the value in failing. Are they kidding? Why would a parent or manager want people to fail? You never want to reward failing but you always need to reinforce trying. In order to do that you have to focus on …
… Management With more than 500,000 copies in print, R+ Performance Management is the only book of its kind that explains the science of behavior and provides proven research and business and industry examples for applying its principles at … latest release. … With more than 500,000 copies in print, R+ Performance Management is the only book of its kind that explains the science of behavior and provides proven research and business and industry examples for applying its principles at …
… red key pecks produce the choice, they tell us so by pecking the gold key. These actions indicate that pigeons can be said to be aware of their own behavior. So, what does this have to do with us humans? Everything, I think. We (Toshikazu and … how we behave toward others in the future. Particular patterns of such behavior are either more or less likely to occur again but with greater self-awareness of what we are doing. The pigeon experiment helps answer my earlier question of “What is … its effects on others. The pigeons provide us with a better understanding of how self-awareness develops and is maintained. Obviously such learning in humans is more subtle and typically does not involve working for food, but the …
… I was in Ellicott City, Maryland a while back, visiting my daughter and her family on the night when 21 cars of an 80-car train hauling coal from near my home in West Virginia to Baltimore derailed. Two young women - college students – were tragically killed in the accident. The girls were sitting on the overpass above the main street in Ellicott City around midnight when cars on the overpass overturned and buried them under tons of coal. …
… A Review of "Quiet" by Susan Cain I am not sure how to introduce the book “Quiet” by Susan Cain. I don’t want to say it is about “introverts” because, as a professional behavior analyst and psychologist, I know the … safe distance. Then one day they approach the water’s edge, perhaps with the child riding on the parent’s shoulders. They wait for calm weather, or low tide, to immerse a toe, then a foot, then a knee. They don’t rush; every small step is a giant …
… experience. For a particular history of exposure to circumstances similar to the ones that confront us when intuition is said to take over. All of us have a wealth of problem-solving experience. When confronted with a new problem, that Well of … old situation to the novel one, but allowing for both similarities and differences between the two. My view of intuition raises several issues. If by intuition we mean experience, does that mean that intuition is not a “gut feeling” about … differently – we attend to different aspects of our experiences. Because of my personal history of working with a certain kind of apparatus for graphing behavior in real time, I look at a graph from that device and I see wonderful things: I …
… to Turing’s test. So, it’s now well past the 50 years later mentioned by Turing and let’s say that a good interrogator has failed to distinguish between a computer and a human answering the same questions. The Turing test criteria have been met – … the computer was programmed by a human to behave in humanlike ways. In the latter case, the contingencies developing and maintaining the answers given the interrogator are quite different from those of the human. When is it true that things acting …
… were benefiting from such chip development, making a new generation of supercomputers possible. Technology is certainly apparatus, like the scientific instruments in the virtual museum at the Aubrey Daniels Institute or high-speed … if properly used, can further advance the basic science. Nor is technology the slave of the basic science. Technology also raises questions that sometimes are best addressed at the level of technology, further blurring the distinction between … were benefiting from such chip development, making a new generation of supercomputers possible. Technology is certainly apparatus, like the scientific instruments in the virtual museum at the Aubrey Daniels Institute or high-speed …