http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/bf-skinners-pigeon-and-a-red-block/ Wed, 22 May 2013 05:13:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/bf-skinners-pigeon-and-a-red-block/#comment-15703 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:29:53 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/bf-skinners-pigeon-and-a-red-block/#comment-15703 We don’t know what came before, but the leaf is the reinforcement in this occurence.

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/bf-skinners-pigeon-and-a-red-block/#comment-12800 Wed, 14 May 2008 21:54:21 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/bf-skinners-pigeon-and-a-red-block/#comment-12800 I think this video is quite interesting. If you interpret it from a strictly behavioristic point of view, it doesn’t make a lot of sense, since the pigeons behavior is not reinforced. I think assuming that the pigeon somehow has a cognitive model of the situation provides a better explanation for what is going on here than the classic behavioristic approach.

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