If you would like to attend activities for Darwin week I can give you a
couple of points if you can relate it back to the class (how it ties into what
we have been learning/doing).
I went to many Darwin week events but the one that will be focused on for this post is the "What it means to be human: The Social Ethics of Darwin"
This one I think most closely relates to the class not because of the topic that the talk was over but instead because of the speakers emitted behaviors and how (in my opinion) he failed to keep his audience under stimulus control.
This speaker started the talk by emitting the behavior of saying hello to everyone eliciting silence from the audience as he brought out a "prop" to his talk. He, unlike many other speakers, didn't have a powerpoint or visual display other then his "prop". This prop consisted of a golden statue of a monkey in the "thinker" position. Eliciting thoughts from the audience about evolution and Darwin. I believe this was a great start to the talk and a good way to create an environment where the speaker was starting to create stimulus control over his audience. His prop was something of interest to people, reinforcing the behavior of them listening (at least for a little bit) to his talk.
Now I am sure that the speaker had many interesting things to say but when he emitted the behavior of starting his speech he lost my interest almost instantly. He started by looking down at the podium (obviously at a paper) and speaking word for word from the paper that it is assumed he had written. This is how he continued the rest of his speech. This behavior of reading off of a paper caused a lot of his audience to emit behavior indicative of the fact that they were no longer engaged in what he was saying.
I also felt that this is also a case of social control and how social norms dictate what we do in our daily lives. This was exhibiting in the fact that none of the audience got up and left. Creating the illusion that he had some amount of stimulus control over the audience simply because of his position at the podium. I believe that the context of Darwin week could be considered his antecedent as well as his discriminative stimulus for people not getting up and leaving.
This was the only speaker in Darwin week that I was disappointed in because his emitted behaviors seemed to suggest that he was more interested in the importance of his own paper then in teaching his audience.
I would just like to point out that I don't know exactly what the other members of the audience were thinking I can only speculate by observing their behaviors and this is still a matter of opinion.
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I went to many Darwin week events but the one that will be focused on for this post is the "What it means to be human: The Social Ethics of Darwin"
This one I think most closely relates to the class not because of the topic that the talk was over but instead because of the speakers emitted behaviors and how (in my opinion) he failed to keep his audience under stimulus control.
This speaker started the talk by emitting the behavior of saying hello to everyone eliciting silence from the audience as he brought out a "prop" to his talk. He, unlike many other speakers, didn't have a powerpoint or visual display other then his "prop". This prop consisted of a golden statue of a monkey in the "thinker" position. Eliciting thoughts from the audience about evolution and Darwin. I believe this was a great start to the talk and a good way to create an environment where the speaker was starting to create stimulus control over his audience. His prop was something of interest to people, reinforcing the behavior of them listening (at least for a little bit) to his talk.
Now I am sure that the speaker had many interesting things to say but when he emitted the behavior of starting his speech he lost my interest almost instantly. He started by looking down at the podium (obviously at a paper) and speaking word for word from the paper that it is assumed he had written. This is how he continued the rest of his speech. This behavior of reading off of a paper caused a lot of his audience to emit behavior indicative of the fact that they were no longer engaged in what he was saying.
I also felt that this is also a case of social control and how social norms dictate what we do in our daily lives. This was exhibiting in the fact that none of the audience got up and left. Creating the illusion that he had some amount of stimulus control over the audience simply because of his position at the podium. I believe that the context of Darwin week could be considered his antecedent as well as his discriminative stimulus for people not getting up and leaving.
This was the only speaker in Darwin week that I was disappointed in because his emitted behaviors seemed to suggest that he was more interested in the importance of his own paper then in teaching his audience.
I would just like to point out that I don't know exactly what the other members of the audience were thinking I can only speculate by observing their behaviors and this is still a matter of opinion.