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VY-MU: TRAINING TO TOOTLE!

AND THEN COME ALONG. . .

Some Others who don't follow the flock and fail to tootle along or actually actually

tootle. . .

to another tune. . .?

When Socrates was being prepared to drink his hemlock, and not suffer a Keatsian ODE TO A GRECIAN URN by going far ahead of his time and groaning:

'My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains my sense,

as though of hemlock I had drunk

Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains and Lethewards had sunk,

Tis not through envy of thy happy lot. . .'

BUT WHAT HE ACTUALLY DID MADE THE MOB SO ANGRY AS TO WANT TO CLOBBER HIM TO HIS DEATH IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE SIMPLE SYNCHRONY OF THE SILLY FACT THAT HE WAS ALREADY ON THE DEATH ROW AWAITING HIS HEMLOCK. . .

In1938 Burrhus Friederich Skinner published

'The Behavior of Organisms'.

The law of effect was ressurected to provide a technology which allowed sequences of behavior produced over a long time to be studied objectively. He developed the CONCEPT OF

OPERANT CONDITIONING.

The association was between operant response and reinforcer [that is the reward] and that the learning was not the result of stimulus-response learning.

The discriminative stimulus served to signal when this association would be acted upon.