Regulation of Emitted Behavior via Conditioning
by tdaxp ~ September 22nd, 2008
Russia is an organism capable of learning that emits behavior. Our goal then becomes to control the emission of that behavior so that it is favorable to us.
We do this through conditioning. When Russia does something good, we reward that behavior by either giving it something it wants, or taking away something Russia does not want. When Russia does something bad, we don’t reward it. When Russia does something radically different — such as the Olympic War against Georgia — we change the conditions under which Russia can earn rewards.
There is good news that we are not rewarding Russian behavior.
There is good news that are are changing the condition.
There is no new Cold War against Russia. Russia is to weak for that to happen. There is merely the training of a Gap state to act in a war that does not disrupt global economic growth. And that is a good thing.
[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2 008/06/19/the-foreign-polic...
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
“We do this through conditioning.” (Dan)
I used to wonder why my ex-girlfriend used to act like a bitch to me one minute, and then act really sweet a minute later? She was a psychology undergrad major, and I figured her behavior was due to a chemical imbalance and that her interest is psychology was her attempt at understanding herself better? After taking Psychology 101 myself, I realized she was using classic conditioning on me, with the purpose (I assume) of changing my behavior.
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Was the conditioning Operant Conditioning, which the diagram calls Type I, or Respondant Conditioning, which the diagram calls Type II?
Just curious…
September 24th, 2008 at 3:59 am
I just looked through my Psych 101 textbook (I keep most of my textbooks) and I think it was operant conditioning? If I understand correctly, OC involves positive and negative reinforcement, and positive and negative punishment?
So if I was wearing a shirt she didn’t like, she would act like bitch until I changed it, and then “reward” (acting nice) me if I did. And on the days I wore a shirt she liked, she would positively reinforce my behavior.
September 25th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Seerov,
Behaviorists tend not think punishment works well… but on the other hand, rewarding someone by ceasing a negative stimulus could be “negative reinforcement.” So she would be doing it wrong if she screeched at you whenever you did something wrong, but if she normally screeched but was silent if you did something right, that would be negative reinforcement.
Wikipedia has pretty good write-ups. [1,2]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement