HEY YOU BEHAVIORISTS

Myrmidon · 2011-04-30 07:08:38

IT'S BLANK NOW

Saigyouji · 2011-04-30 07:15:14

...Turn that into a link? Please? You're murdering the formatting.

Stormtroper · 2011-04-30 09:42:54

BIECOI

DonZabu · 2011-04-30 12:30:18

???

(Although I do hate behaviorism)

Ponicalica · 2011-04-30 17:19:32

buh?

TheMightyAnonym · 2011-04-30 20:45:56

...What is this thread, exactly...?

Vorpy · 2011-04-30 20:46:32

Nobody cares about your Orwellian metathread Myrmidon.

Myrmidon · 2011-04-30 20:53:45

This thread would make sense if SOMEONE didn't bitch about having to scroll.

ClockworkUniverse · 2011-04-30 20:54:29

Or, alternatively, you could have turned it into a link as suggested.

Vorpy · 2011-04-30 20:55:43

This thread would be a lot better if the OP didn't pump out blatant shitty attack threads every time he read something stupid or offensive on TV Tropes, even if he didn't say anything insulting in the OP, but feels the need to bring attention to it to see if people will comment negatively on it.

This is not that thread, but the more you know.

^^^ An orwelled thread.

Myrmidon · 2011-04-30 20:56:46

Vorpy stop saying things everyone is thinking but no one is willing to say.

GLORIOUSLeader · 2011-04-30 20:58:52

Bill Cosby disapproves, Myrm. Now what was the topic again?

Vorpy · 2011-04-30 20:59:01

Okay, I won't do that anymore.

TheMightyAnonym · 2011-04-30 21:08:11

WHAT IN THE HELL WAS POSTED?!

TELL ME NOW!!!!!

I must know.

DYRE · 2011-04-30 21:10:02

GLORIOUSLeader · 2011-04-30 21:11:09

Why thank you, DYRE. I now understand everything.

ClockworkUniverse · 2011-04-30 21:15:19

Well-said, DYRE. You really thought that out. Gave you a MOFW for that.

Myrmidon · 2011-04-30 21:19:29

GLORIOUSLeader · 2011-04-30 21:20:59

Okay.

So what the fuck does that have to do with behaviorism?

snowbull · 2011-04-30 21:26:12

Can someone translate the wikipedia definition of behaviourism to plebeian speak?

Myrmidon · 2011-04-30 21:28:57

You treat all human behavior as being a result of learned behavior based on previous positive or negative stimuli.

ClockworkUniverse · 2011-04-30 21:29:30

^^Wikipedia does so itself:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism

snowbull · 2011-04-30 21:31:28

^^All?

DonZabu · 2011-04-30 21:37:53

^ Yes. It basically reduces people to livestock.

snowbull · 2011-04-30 21:38:57

Couldn't some human behaviour be hardwired before birth?

ClockworkUniverse · 2011-04-30 21:39:25

^^I don't see why "all behaviors are learned"="people are livestock."

^Yeah, I think behaviorism allows for reflexes to an extend. If not, it should.

DonZabu · 2011-04-30 22:06:11

^ Because of the way it undermines the internal, cognitive mind, and people's ability to think and choose in a meaningful way. The way Skinner would have it, we'd all be just like these pigeons:

ClockworkUniverse · 2011-04-30 22:11:40

MMORPGs, most of which are modeled on Skinner's experiments, are immensely successful.

And it doesn't mean humans aren't better at learning to do stuff. Isn't thinking and choosing critically a learned behavior?

DonZabu · 2011-04-30 22:27:35

I just resent the determinist implications of behaviorist theories. I don't suppose you think we have free will, INUH?

ClockworkUniverse · 2011-04-30 22:30:22

I dunno. It's not testable. I'd think of free will as choosing between learned behaviors, if it does exist.

DonZabu · 2011-04-30 22:35:11

>It's not testable.

Neither is God, and he could very well exist.

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