Who wants to have some fun with their teachers via basic behavior modification? Conditioning - An Experiment: To see how this works, you might try to condition one of your instructors to act in a certain way, without him or her knowing it. Heres what you do. First, explain what youre doing to as many people in the class as you can. Second, pick the behavior that you want to reinforce—walking back and forth, standing in a particular spot, gesturing to the class with a piece of chalk, or whatever. The object of the game is to administer positive reinforcement every time your instructor performs the behavior you have chosen. Look interested, nod your head, ask questions, take notes. When he or she stops the behavior, go to negative reinforcement. Look bored, act confused, shuffle your feet, look at your watch, stare out the window. When your teacher goes back to the chosen behavior, respond positively again. After a while, you should find your teacher doing the behavior you selected most of the time. (One class took being near the radiator as the behavior they wanted to reinforce. By the end of the semester, their instructor was so well conditioned that he simply sat on the radiator throughout each class.) If you do this right, and have not been too obvious about it, you will see that you have controlled someones behavior without that persons knowledge. You will have conditioned your instructor to act in a certain way because she or he wants the positive feeling that comes with the interest you show. Discovering philosophy / Thomas I. White. --Brief ed. amazon/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0135080037/
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 21:12:16 +0000
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