This Thread Title Might Get Me Banned: Log Cabin in the Skinner Box

The GOP keeps shocking LGBTs, but LCR still keeps getting in the box

There is a nasty little experimental device invented by B.F. Skinner that bears his name — the Skinner Box — and is used to study the behavior of rats when subjected to “negative reinforcement.”

It works like this:

The floor of the box is a wire mesh that is designed to deliver a mild but uncomfortable electric shock. There is a lever on the wall of the box that turns off the current. Rats are placed in the box and after jumping around on the electric floor, soon discover that when they bump against the lever, the shock stops. After just a few visits to the box, they immediately run to the lever and hold it down.

Skinner later added a light that signaled that the shock would start in a few seconds. The rats learned to run to the lever every time the light was lit and thus avoided the shock.

Not what I call humane, but very instructive — especially for human behavior.

Read more: http://www.dallasvoice.com/log-cabin-skinner-box-10193928.html

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