B.F. Skinner’s Pigeon and a Red Block
Posted by situationistguest on May 13, 2008
In this one-minute video from the B.F. Skinner Foundation, a pigeon uses a red block as a stand. A pigeon positions itself on a block so that a leaf that was out of its proximity before becomes within its reach.
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
This entry was posted on May 13, 2008 at 10:38 pm and is filed under Uncategorized, Video.
Tagged: B.F. Skinner, conditioning, pigeon, red block. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
T said
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.
tami said
We don’t know what came before, but the leaf is the reinforcement in this occurence.