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- From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
- Subject: Re: habits
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.013016.21646@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <1993Jan25.033913.11937@midway.uchicago.edu> <00728097402@elgamy.jpunix.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:30:16 GMT
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- In article <00728097402@elgamy.jpunix.com> elg@elgamy.jpunix.com (Eric Lee Green) writes:
- >
- >For example, I was always locking my keys in the car. So I defined a new
- >stimulus/behavior pair: every time I am standing outside my car ready to
- >swing the door shut, I put my hand in my pocket and jingle the keys. If I
- >can't find any keys in that pocket, well, time to launch a search party! In
- >my case, the reward is simply the stimulation of jingling the keys and
- >knowing that I'm not going to lock the keys in the car. It's a lot more
-
- Gosh behaviorism's great! We used to just call this "checking to make
- sure I haven't locked the keys in the car", but now we've got it
- redescribed in cool-o neat-o scientific jargon. It must be better
- now, eh? :-)
-
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