Re: Example of conditioning

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> [David Longley]
>
> | Look up SNIFFY on Google - download the demo program - that should do.
>
> I've never used Sniffy, but have heard from others that sniffy is
> programmed by cognitive psychologists and doesn't behave the way real
> rats do - you have to follow its rules.  that comment was made in 2000,
> I don't know what's happened since.

I suspect there may well be flaws then, but it is only a teaching aid. 
It's hard *not* to come across "cognitive" corruption of behaviour 
analysis these days I find. I've just given out a link in c.a.p. to the 
2001 Ann. Rev. of Psychol "Theories of Associative Learning" by Pearce 
and Bouton, mainly for the ref3erences on negative patterning. Sadly, 
the chapter will, no doubt, be quite inappropr6iately welcomed by those 
who find my (and Glen's) seemingly austere anti-cognitivism too 
unpalatable. They don't seem to appreciate that the work can and perhaps 
should be read without the "gloss" (and that the gloss really does just 
get in the way - but then many don't realise just how little progress 
the alternative talk has brought in 30-40 years!!).

All the best,

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David Longley