Re: Finding useful functions- part 1

From: Wolf Kirchmeir (wwolfkir_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:30:05 -0500

Stargazer wrote:
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> The control of reinforcement schedules in an experimental setting
> (no matter if with fishes or mermaids) will inform you about how
> the animal reacts to artificially controlled reinforcement schedules.
> That's part of what I call "artificial environments". It will not
> inform you much about how the animal acts in natural environments,
> where contingencies are completely different.

It's not clear what you mean by contingencies, not why you think that
natural ones would have different effects than artifcial ones. The
reinforcemnt schedule? The reinforcers? The animal's responses to the
reinforcers? The discriminators? Etc?

Just what do you think you are talking about?