stackyFACTSGive a child a candy for screaming, and congratulations, you have built a screaming machine. Operant conditioning relies on reinforcements to alter voluntary behavior. We are all essentially just pigeons in a giant box, endlessly pushing levers because society occasionally dispenses a tiny pellet of validation.
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Just when you thought you successfully trained a dog to ignore a bell, the drooling suddenly returns out of nowhere. Extinguished responses love to…
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