The topic that elicited interest from me was dog whispering and its connection to behavior modification. First of all, dog whispering is understanding how a dog is feeling and then communicating with the dog by way of a dog’s natural language and inborn cues through body language, mood, tone, and other natural cues. Dog whispering is not about providing reinforcement or punishment but rather the relationship with the dog.
I then emitted a behavior of finding a video of someone using dog whispering to train a dog. The video is about a dog that uses aggressiveness to exert control over his owners. The dog whispering expert trains the dog to be less aggressive by establishing dominance, paying attention to cues from the dog, and leading the dog in the right direction. After viewing training by dog whispering, I found that dog whispering is about modeling for the dog by making your mood and attitude match the attitude and mood you desire the dog to exhibit. It is also about establishing dominance over the dog and being “the pack leader.”
In regards to behavior modification, I think most of dog whispering’s effectiveness is establishing the right antecedent. It’s more about the environment than the consequences. The “science” of dog whispering is basically a functional analysis because the expert has to look at all sorts of factors that affect the dog’s behavior such as who is around, what the dog’s attitude or mood is, why the dog is emitting the behavior, etc. Then the expert uses what he or she learned from the functional analysis to model or lead the dog to the correct behavior or disrupt the antecedent to elicit the desired behavior. Dog whispering also uses extinction because it ignores the behavior that the dog was previously reinforced for such as aggressive behavior.
I think reinforcement is safer than dog whispering because as seen in the video, the dog exhibits various forms of aggressive behavior when going through an extinction burst. The dog in the video used aggression to get what it wanted meaning that the dog was previously being reinforced for aggressive behavior. When the dog was not reinforced it displayed several aggressive behaviors that could have been harmful to the owners, the expert, and others.
Also reinforcement seems like it would be more effective and quicker because you don't necessarily have to display "natural dog cues" to elicit the behavior, you just have to give a reinforcer.
The topic I chose to look into was why people emit the behavior of self mutilation. I thought this was an interesting topic to look into because I never understood how someone could do mutilation to themselves and what triggered the behavior behind it. The main reason people self mutilate themselves are because they lack the coping skills to deal with certain behaviors and situations. A way to modify this behavior is to introduce new skills to cope with emotion. Some people use self mutilation as a way to express feelings that they cannot speak or express in any other way. The mutilation is directed to others. If the emotional need is met the behavior is decreased. Another reason people use mutilation as coping skill is because they use it as control and punishment. They feel that if they hurt themselves, bad things they feel will be prevented. It becomes an obsessive compulsive disorder. They feel that the mutilation becomes a protective behavior for preventing harm to loved ones. One of the main characteristics in all the behavior that emit mutilation is control. It is something that everyone with this behavioral disorder can control.
Self mutilation is mainly seen in woman because the drive for attention is stronger. Men as a society have learned to keep the feelings repressed and not to draw attention to themselves. Men tend to turn to substances when trying to deal with strong emotions.
One theory to why people self mutilate is called constructivist theory. It states that people are missing three important self capacities. One is the ability to handle strong feelings. Another is the ability to maintain a sense of self-worth. And the last is the ability to maintain a sense of connection to others.
Brain chemistry may also play a role in self mutilation disorder. Brain chemistry and serotonin play a role in many mental disorders. People with low serotonin tend to turn irritability inward and emit behaviors of self damaging actions and suicidal acts. People with normal serotonin levels tend to function there emotions by yelling, throwing things and expressing their emotion outward instead of inwards.
Some characteristics common in people who self inflict injuries among themselves are sensitivity to rejection, are chronically angry at themselves, tend to suppress their anger, tend to act in accordance with their mood of the moment, tend to not plan for the future, suffer chronic anxiety, and do not have good coping skills with strong emotion.
Some treatments to help are psychotherapy and medication. Self mutilation tends to come with depression and usually eating disorders. They also tend to lack sexual interest and activity. Some other treatments for self mutilation disorder are the same as how they would treat obsession compulsion disorder. http://www.palace.net/llama/psych/who.html http://www.palace.net/llama/psych/why.html
This article I read is called “Babies Embrace Punishment Earlier Than Previously Thought, Study Suggests”. A study done by the University of British Columbia elicited a knowledge of new research that showed babies as young as 8 months old can distinguish aversive responses. This could be selected through evolution- keeping the pleasurable responses, and keeping ourselves safe.
The article said that before, we thought babies responded aversively to unkind people, it is now shown that babies are okay with aversive behavior towards unkind people. Not only do they dislike unkind people, they dislike people that are kind to unkind people.
The experiment emitted use hand puppets, and how the babies selected which puppets they wanted to reinforce with treats. They positively reinforced the “good” puppets, rather than the “bad” puppets.
These skills are positive for evolution, and can explain how we have survived through our social views learned as soon as 8 months old.
The video link is below-- It showed the experiment, and how the puppets were acting. I liked this, because it showed a good example of how the experiment went.
While trying to think of a topic that elicits an interest to me, I realized that I have an extreme inability to focus. I have had my computer opened for more than the last hour with this BMod. Blog post page open, yet I have been unable to bring myself to emit the writing or thinking behavior to complete the post. I am unable to focus on a work that I don’t believe to emit the desired points that are required. Therefore, I became interesting in the behavior of focusing on a task at hand. So many antecedents can lead to the behavior of concentration.
For example, the some antecedents that increase the likelihood of focusing may be A= at the library, it’s quiet, a deadline is approaching quickly, a grade depends upon it, After eating a meal, the teacher is watching, in a classroom, etc.
Possitive Consequences (possitive or negative reinforcement) can also encourage the behavior of focusing. For example C= a better grade, less homework, learn something new, make money, better education, improve situation, gain something new, finish a project, get to go to bed, receive other personal reward such as going to bed or getting on facebook, etc.
In addition to my concidering the antecedents and consequences, I also elicited a behavior of watching youtube videos about focusing and behaviors that may improve focusing. I’m not the only one that cannot focus. My roommate is also unable to focus on her paper at the moment. Just getting back from break makes it difficult for nearly everyone to focus. Further, people may have disorders that prevent them from focusing-such as ADHD or ADD. Some of the videos about focusing are as follows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMGhEGVw27o
The above video is about focusing on homework (like I’m trying to do now). It’s a school guidance counselor talking about the importance of rewards in modifying behavior that can get someone to do their homework. If you want you child to focus and do homework, you tell them that they will get rewarded for focusing. That is that if they focus and complete their homework, they will get to watch tv or get a snack. I want to go to bed. So I will reward myself by going to bed after I finish this extra credit assignment. The video is about reinforcing the behavior of focusing which I am interested in. I was wondering why it is so difficult to focus, perhaps it is difficult for me to focus because I’m not rewarding myself appropriately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqRQ7PQFLM0
This is a somewhat comical lecture on focusing. It explains that focusing is a “fresh thing”. It talks about what focusing actually is and what feelings are related. It’s not intended to be funny. It seems funny however because the man speaks very deeply as if emitting a drugged/high behavior. Still, this man, Gene Gendlin, gives a new perspective to me on what focusing really is. He says that focusing is going to the edge of what is unclear, and working to find the clear. It is also to welcome or acknowledge something specific and the feelings related. It is the welcoming of a new idea. I think that this is a difference perspective of focus than I originally concidered. Emitting the behavior of exporing the my elicited topic of interest, focus, I have broadened my horizons and learned even more about the subject.
With this particular blog writing behavior, I am focusing because I believe that it will elicit a positive or desired consequence. I want to go to bed and it is getting late so I need to focus in order to finish this extra credit assignment before midnight. So, the pressure is on
In terms of Gene Gendlin, I may also be focusing because I actually wish to explore something new and go to that merky edge where I recognize and relate to myself and my feelings in order to learn. I focus to emit a learning behavior in this instance.
A=Quiet Room OR A=blank word document
B=Focus on Assignment OR B=write on document
C=Get Extra Credit OR C=Finish Assignment and MOVE ON WITH MY LIFE!
Funny extra related to focusing (found as I finished the assignment/extra credit work): http://www.youtube.com/user/OldSpice?v=tGVahv_zwXw&feature=pyv&ad=7619517857&kw=funny
Commercials are often made to elicit focus among the viewers. They may often do this through humor. I found this video funny and I decided to focus my attention on it. Perhaps, individuals can focus there attention on something else. The problem isn’t whether or not an idividual is able to focus, it is getting them to focus on a desired issue. This video distracted my focus form my video search. I began to think about it because it was a “fresh thing” to which I could devote my attention. I welcomed the new idea and began to ponder why it was interesting or effective.
This video and the exploration of my interest in this topic helped me realize that focus and having focus is such a broad thing that is difficult to research as there are many possible things on which to give our focus or attention.
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The topic that elicited interest from me was dog whispering and its connection to behavior modification. First of all, dog whispering is understanding how a dog is feeling and then communicating with the dog by way of a dog’s natural language and inborn cues through body language, mood, tone, and other natural cues. Dog whispering is not about providing reinforcement or punishment but rather the relationship with the dog.
http://k91training.tripod.com/id15.html
I then emitted a behavior of finding a video of someone using dog whispering to train a dog. The video is about a dog that uses aggressiveness to exert control over his owners. The dog whispering expert trains the dog to be less aggressive by establishing dominance, paying attention to cues from the dog, and leading the dog in the right direction. After viewing training by dog whispering, I found that dog whispering is about modeling for the dog by making your mood and attitude match the attitude and mood you desire the dog to exhibit. It is also about establishing dominance over the dog and being “the pack leader.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZD_p1trwYM
In regards to behavior modification, I think most of dog whispering’s effectiveness is establishing the right antecedent. It’s more about the environment than the consequences. The “science” of dog whispering is basically a functional analysis because the expert has to look at all sorts of factors that affect the dog’s behavior such as who is around, what the dog’s attitude or mood is, why the dog is emitting the behavior, etc. Then the expert uses what he or she learned from the functional analysis to model or lead the dog to the correct behavior or disrupt the antecedent to elicit the desired behavior. Dog whispering also uses extinction because it ignores the behavior that the dog was previously reinforced for such as aggressive behavior.
I think reinforcement is safer than dog whispering because as seen in the video, the dog exhibits various forms of aggressive behavior when going through an extinction burst. The dog in the video used aggression to get what it wanted meaning that the dog was previously being reinforced for aggressive behavior. When the dog was not reinforced it displayed several aggressive behaviors that could have been harmful to the owners, the expert, and others.
Also reinforcement seems like it would be more effective and quicker because you don't necessarily have to display "natural dog cues" to elicit the behavior, you just have to give a reinforcer.
The topic I chose to look into was why people emit the behavior of self mutilation. I thought this was an interesting topic to look into because I never understood how someone could do mutilation to themselves and what triggered the behavior behind it. The main reason people self mutilate themselves are because they lack the coping skills to deal with certain behaviors and situations. A way to modify this behavior is to introduce new skills to cope with emotion. Some people use self mutilation as a way to express feelings that they cannot speak or express in any other way. The mutilation is directed to others. If the emotional need is met the behavior is decreased. Another reason people use mutilation as coping skill is because they use it as control and punishment. They feel that if they hurt themselves, bad things they feel will be prevented. It becomes an obsessive compulsive disorder. They feel that the mutilation becomes a protective behavior for preventing harm to loved ones. One of the main characteristics in all the behavior that emit mutilation is control. It is something that everyone with this behavioral disorder can control.
Self mutilation is mainly seen in woman because the drive for attention is stronger. Men as a society have learned to keep the feelings repressed and not to draw attention to themselves. Men tend to turn to substances when trying to deal with strong emotions.
One theory to why people self mutilate is called constructivist theory. It states that people are missing three important self capacities. One is the ability to handle strong feelings. Another is the ability to maintain a sense of self-worth. And the last is the ability to maintain a sense of connection to others.
Brain chemistry may also play a role in self mutilation disorder. Brain chemistry and serotonin play a role in many mental disorders. People with low serotonin tend to turn irritability inward and emit behaviors of self damaging actions and suicidal acts. People with normal serotonin levels tend to function there emotions by yelling, throwing things and expressing their emotion outward instead of inwards.
Some characteristics common in people who self inflict injuries among themselves are sensitivity to rejection, are chronically angry at themselves, tend to suppress their anger, tend to act in accordance with their mood of the moment, tend to not plan for the future, suffer chronic anxiety, and do not have good coping skills with strong emotion.
Some treatments to help are psychotherapy and medication. Self mutilation tends to come with depression and usually eating disorders. They also tend to lack sexual interest and activity. Some other treatments for self mutilation disorder are the same as how they would treat obsession compulsion disorder.
http://www.palace.net/llama/psych/who.html
http://www.palace.net/llama/psych/why.html
This article I read is called “Babies Embrace Punishment Earlier Than Previously Thought, Study Suggests”. A study done by the University of British Columbia elicited a knowledge of new research that showed babies as young as 8 months old can distinguish aversive responses. This could be selected through evolution- keeping the pleasurable responses, and keeping ourselves safe.
The article said that before, we thought babies responded aversively to unkind people, it is now shown that babies are okay with aversive behavior towards unkind people. Not only do they dislike unkind people, they dislike people that are kind to unkind people.
The experiment emitted use hand puppets, and how the babies selected which puppets they wanted to reinforce with treats. They positively reinforced the “good” puppets, rather than the “bad” puppets.
These skills are positive for evolution, and can explain how we have survived through our social views learned as soon as 8 months old.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111128152416.htm
The video link is below-- It showed the experiment, and how the puppets were acting. I liked this, because it showed a good example of how the experiment went.
http://cic.psych.ubc.ca/Example_Stimuli.html
While trying to think of a topic that elicits an interest to me, I realized that I have an extreme inability to focus. I have had my computer opened for more than the last hour with this BMod. Blog post page open, yet I have been unable to bring myself to emit the writing or thinking behavior to complete the post. I am unable to focus on a work that I don’t believe to emit the desired points that are required. Therefore, I became interesting in the behavior of focusing on a task at hand. So many antecedents can lead to the behavior of concentration.
For example, the some antecedents that increase the likelihood of focusing may be A= at the library, it’s quiet, a deadline is approaching quickly, a grade depends upon it, After eating a meal, the teacher is watching, in a classroom, etc.
Possitive Consequences (possitive or negative reinforcement) can also encourage the behavior of focusing. For example C= a better grade, less homework, learn something new, make money, better education, improve situation, gain something new, finish a project, get to go to bed, receive other personal reward such as going to bed or getting on facebook, etc.
In addition to my concidering the antecedents and consequences, I also elicited a behavior of watching youtube videos about focusing and behaviors that may improve focusing. I’m not the only one that cannot focus. My roommate is also unable to focus on her paper at the moment. Just getting back from break makes it difficult for nearly everyone to focus. Further, people may have disorders that prevent them from focusing-such as ADHD or ADD. Some of the videos about focusing are as follows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMGhEGVw27o
The above video is about focusing on homework (like I’m trying to do now). It’s a school guidance counselor talking about the importance of rewards in modifying behavior that can get someone to do their homework. If you want you child to focus and do homework, you tell them that they will get rewarded for focusing. That is that if they focus and complete their homework, they will get to watch tv or get a snack. I want to go to bed. So I will reward myself by going to bed after I finish this extra credit assignment. The video is about reinforcing the behavior of focusing which I am interested in. I was wondering why it is so difficult to focus, perhaps it is difficult for me to focus because I’m not rewarding myself appropriately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqRQ7PQFLM0
This is a somewhat comical lecture on focusing. It explains that focusing is a “fresh thing”. It talks about what focusing actually is and what feelings are related. It’s not intended to be funny. It seems funny however because the man speaks very deeply as if emitting a drugged/high behavior. Still, this man, Gene Gendlin, gives a new perspective to me on what focusing really is. He says that focusing is going to the edge of what is unclear, and working to find the clear. It is also to welcome or acknowledge something specific and the feelings related. It is the welcoming of a new idea. I think that this is a difference perspective of focus than I originally concidered. Emitting the behavior of exporing the my elicited topic of interest, focus, I have broadened my horizons and learned even more about the subject.
With this particular blog writing behavior, I am focusing because I believe that it will elicit a positive or desired consequence. I want to go to bed and it is getting late so I need to focus in order to finish this extra credit assignment before midnight. So, the pressure is on
In terms of Gene Gendlin, I may also be focusing because I actually wish to explore something new and go to that merky edge where I recognize and relate to myself and my feelings in order to learn. I focus to emit a learning behavior in this instance.
A=Quiet Room OR A=blank word document
B=Focus on Assignment OR B=write on document
C=Get Extra Credit OR C=Finish Assignment and MOVE ON WITH MY LIFE!
Funny extra related to focusing (found as I finished the assignment/extra credit work):
http://www.youtube.com/user/OldSpice?v=tGVahv_zwXw&feature=pyv&ad=7619517857&kw=funny
Commercials are often made to elicit focus among the viewers. They may often do this through humor. I found this video funny and I decided to focus my attention on it. Perhaps, individuals can focus there attention on something else. The problem isn’t whether or not an idividual is able to focus, it is getting them to focus on a desired issue. This video distracted my focus form my video search. I began to think about it because it was a “fresh thing” to which I could devote my attention. I welcomed the new idea and began to ponder why it was interesting or effective.
This video and the exploration of my interest in this topic helped me realize that focus and having focus is such a broad thing that is difficult to research as there are many possible things on which to give our focus or attention.