Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Brainwashed

People do weird things. Often these are due to the operant conditioning or classical conditioning inflicted on them. Its funny I’ve been seeing references lately to these to describe….

  • Email – Like Skinner’s pigeons, we hit the button to check for new messages hoping to get something. The intermittent reinforcement of not getting a new message with every click just helps strengthen the behavior.
  • Twitter – Similar to email, click the button and hope for something good.
Are we our habits? Or are we something more?

Posted

in

,

by

Comments

One response to “Brainwashed”

  1. mykgerard Avatar

    I’m a damn pigeon!

Leave a Reply