Sunday, July 17, 2016
160717
4:13 PM
Sunday, July 17, 2016 (PDT)
Time in Ellensburg, WA
SUNDAY (interior) LIBRARY
Drank ten and a half beers this weekend. Wayne forbid it< SAT) Day two but i drank in the morning, and at night. it was morning walks with Knightley all three days. Sharon and Darl came. First day, Fri, was Sue's birthday. We all went to Rimrock.
Next day we ate breakfast with grandparents, then we went to the car show, then i went home and put on Reba, then i napped till five, and then we started cleaning up Rachels room. And then we had dinner, and then I went to Basin Summer Sounds with Rosa. Then I came home and continued to help Rachel clean her room. And then we went back out; rach, lee, sue, i to say the "Raylins" at Basin Summer SOunds. Next day, Sun, morning walk. Then i did have a smoke and beer even though it was Sun before church.
Went to church early, decided I'd do Childrens Church. Did worship with the drum, and we did acapella Jesus music at the end. I taught out of the book of Micah and started with asking what Cole and Chris wanted to pray for. For example, I myself said that I pray I get through this math class well, that we move to the right place in Yakima, where God has his plan for us, and for continued focus on what i want to do.
After church we went to Agave, I got us to go there and got us to sit outside. After that, uh, Rach and I headed home, she let me smoke in the car twice which was awesome. I had her drop me off at the lib and I started studying math. I called Prof Stein about starting the test early tomorrow. I read through chapter 7.6. I have a few more HW from that section but my problem is is that I'm mostly finding out how to do it from the back. So, yeah, i got distracted, I picked up a Cosmo and brought it to the bathroom. I tried to wank, it was feeling pretty good, but this Zoloft has really put a stopper on my penis.
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Monday, July 11, 2016
Secret History of Happinness
Operant conditioning, the manner in which learned behavior is acquired, is a form of semantics: a way to make the incomprhehensible understandable for the indiidual, by transferring the universal motivation of self-interest to anything that does not already contain it.
..the realignment of worldview that a parent of an autistic child can be forced to undergo in permitting the momentary yet awful distress caused by "redirection": it is necesary to break down the old order for a new one to rise in its place.
SOmething about our brains-- an evolutionary development that rooted so deep and long ago it is functional even in abnormal or simpler mammalian brains-- responds most naturally to learning by feedback, most successfully when action results in instantaneous reward.
Being taught in the way we were built to acquire knowledge feels right t us, and unsurprisingly gets the job done best. In the artificially constructed learning environment, a token economy mimics the way things already work: the perfectly thrown spear gets dinner. We are made to learn quickly how best to stalk, to aim... Our survival depends on it: assess decide do, see what works. Do again, because it works.
The stickers , lollipops, or play breaks that are most valuable to a child are to unwieldy to offer immediately upon achieving what have been decreed target behaviors, especially when these are inteded to be part of a chain of steps that will eventually merge into a single compund behavior: as soon as he gets the toy, the kid is going to shut down the lesson, no matter if it isn't finished yet. So, tokens are used. These can be collected and later exchanged for rewards the subject finds worthwile.
Behavior, good or bad, is derectly related to the consequences of the behavior. As a consequence of their behavior they are rewarded. Behavor, whether positive or negative, is simply the result of the consequences that attend a particular way of acting.
We believe there are unseen devils in the mind, and the way to exorcise them is by talking. If in the therapists office we identify and understand our problems, they will go away. This procedure is almost as doubtful as burning witches. Treating behavior is the way to change behavior.
Circular time: Past connections and associations will appear in the mind when we are in a situation which demands some action.
Skinner discorvered that the rate of the rat's bar pressing response was dependent not on what happened before, as with Pavlov's bell and the salivation reflex it triggered, but rather on what happened after the bar was pressed. The apperance of a pellet of feed caused the rat's future act-- pressing on the bar again, say , or not doing so, or doing it faster and faster, of for a longer or shorter duration between rewards. The rats behavior tus operated on the environment, and his future acts were always controlled by its effects.
Dopamine is not about pleasure, it's about the anticipation of pleasure. If you block the flow of the chemical, the behavior that previously excited it simply won't reoccur. We act in order to get the rush.
Traditional trainers are enforcers: the command, and then enforce the fulfillment of the command. If not , thenn the application of force commences: an unpleasant sound, a smack, a jerk on the trachea by way of a leash pop. The animal learns to perform a behavior in order to avoid unpleasantness.
The positive reinforcement trainer, on the other hand, starts with the outcome: here is the treat. Next, it's paired with, or conditioned to, what amounts to a symbol ( a click sound, a hand gesture).
And then- light and magic. We let the animal discover that it can cause the marker signal to happen by its own actions. The dolphin jumps- and makes the trainer blow the whistle. The dog sits- and makes the person click a clicker.
Access to a high probability behavior reinforces a low-probability behavior is known as the Premack Principle. His lab rats would drink water they didnt particulary need in order to get something they wanted even more--a run on an exercise wheel. When they were geniunely thirsty, however, they would run even when the didnt watn to in order to get teh water the craved.
..the realignment of worldview that a parent of an autistic child can be forced to undergo in permitting the momentary yet awful distress caused by "redirection": it is necesary to break down the old order for a new one to rise in its place.
SOmething about our brains-- an evolutionary development that rooted so deep and long ago it is functional even in abnormal or simpler mammalian brains-- responds most naturally to learning by feedback, most successfully when action results in instantaneous reward.
Being taught in the way we were built to acquire knowledge feels right t us, and unsurprisingly gets the job done best. In the artificially constructed learning environment, a token economy mimics the way things already work: the perfectly thrown spear gets dinner. We are made to learn quickly how best to stalk, to aim... Our survival depends on it: assess decide do, see what works. Do again, because it works.
The stickers , lollipops, or play breaks that are most valuable to a child are to unwieldy to offer immediately upon achieving what have been decreed target behaviors, especially when these are inteded to be part of a chain of steps that will eventually merge into a single compund behavior: as soon as he gets the toy, the kid is going to shut down the lesson, no matter if it isn't finished yet. So, tokens are used. These can be collected and later exchanged for rewards the subject finds worthwile.
Behavior, good or bad, is derectly related to the consequences of the behavior. As a consequence of their behavior they are rewarded. Behavor, whether positive or negative, is simply the result of the consequences that attend a particular way of acting.
We believe there are unseen devils in the mind, and the way to exorcise them is by talking. If in the therapists office we identify and understand our problems, they will go away. This procedure is almost as doubtful as burning witches. Treating behavior is the way to change behavior.
Circular time: Past connections and associations will appear in the mind when we are in a situation which demands some action.
Skinner discorvered that the rate of the rat's bar pressing response was dependent not on what happened before, as with Pavlov's bell and the salivation reflex it triggered, but rather on what happened after the bar was pressed. The apperance of a pellet of feed caused the rat's future act-- pressing on the bar again, say , or not doing so, or doing it faster and faster, of for a longer or shorter duration between rewards. The rats behavior tus operated on the environment, and his future acts were always controlled by its effects.
Dopamine is not about pleasure, it's about the anticipation of pleasure. If you block the flow of the chemical, the behavior that previously excited it simply won't reoccur. We act in order to get the rush.
Traditional trainers are enforcers: the command, and then enforce the fulfillment of the command. If not , thenn the application of force commences: an unpleasant sound, a smack, a jerk on the trachea by way of a leash pop. The animal learns to perform a behavior in order to avoid unpleasantness.
The positive reinforcement trainer, on the other hand, starts with the outcome: here is the treat. Next, it's paired with, or conditioned to, what amounts to a symbol ( a click sound, a hand gesture).
And then- light and magic. We let the animal discover that it can cause the marker signal to happen by its own actions. The dolphin jumps- and makes the trainer blow the whistle. The dog sits- and makes the person click a clicker.
Access to a high probability behavior reinforces a low-probability behavior is known as the Premack Principle. His lab rats would drink water they didnt particulary need in order to get something they wanted even more--a run on an exercise wheel. When they were geniunely thirsty, however, they would run even when the didnt watn to in order to get teh water the craved.
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