Topical Blog Week #4 (Due Thursday)

1. This is a clip from the movie "Secondhand Lions" where a young teenage boy named Walter and his two bachelor uncles, Hub and Garth, are at an empty bar eating. A group of older teenage rebels come in and start harassing Hub. This causes the uncle to get annoyed and he ends up fighting all four of the juveniles while Walter and Garth sit at the bar and watch in amusement. So, this clip is an example of discriminative stimulus.

A= At a bar for lunch
B= Fight with juveniles
C= The juveniles become embarrassed

I would have to say that this is an example of positive reinforcement.

I feel that this is a good example of discriminative stimulus because although the antecedent was being in a bar, a fight wouldn't have happened had the high school boys left the uncles alone. So, the attempt one of the boys made to take Hub's food elicted Hub's response; to emit a fighting behavior. By setting up this behavior, the juvenile added a desire in Hub to show Walter what should happen to kids who are disrespectful. As a result, the boys had to suffer the emotional consequence of single-handedly getting beat up by an old man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkccqolaVGg

2. This is a clip from an episode of Spongebob Squarepants when Squidward discovers that he likes krabby patties, but he convinced Spongebob early on after he first tasted one that he thought krabby patties were disgusting. In this scene, Squidward sneaks into the Krusty Krab restaurant in the middle of the night so that he can eat a whole krabby patty without being caught, but Spongebob comes in and interupts him. He admits that he loves Krabby patties and he eats lots of them at once. He eventually gets fat thighs and blows up because of all the fatty food. So, this clip is an example of satiation.

A= Krusty Krab restaurant
B= Eating tons of Krabby patties
C= Squidward blows up

I would have to say that this is an example of positive punishment.

I feel that this clip is a good example of satiation because the first bite that Squidward took triggered a desire for more since he had never had a krabby patty before, and the one he snuck after that made him want more because he thought they were delicious. So, when he snuck into the Krusty Krab to eat more, he went over board and ultimately, he exploded because he didn't stop when he was full. Thus, the krabby patties started to have a negative effect on his body by causing his thighs to grow really fat. Clearly, the consequence of blowing up, he never wanted to eat another krabby patty again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlpBw48bgEo

3. This is a clip from "Aladdin" when Aladdin and his monkey Abu steal a melon from a vendor so that they can have breakfast. They are homeless and broke so they have to steal necessities like food, water, and other personal needs. If they had money, a job, or a home to live in, they wouldn't steal and they try to help out other street children too. So, this is a clip to represent deprivation.

A= Marketplace
B= Steal a melon
C= Ease hunger

I would have to say that this is an example of positive reinforcement.

I feel that this clip is a good example of deprivation because Aladdin and Abu are considered "street rats" and thieves, but that wasn't their choice. They are always deprived of food and the only way to get food and survive without money is to steal it. The melon makes the effort to steal more 'worth it' because stealing is the only way Aladdin knows how to satisfy his basic needs. Thus, the reinforcement is positive because food is never aversive for Aladdin. Also, if he goes a day or two without food, then the food he eventually steals and gets to eat will seem more satisfying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuWa2XX7p2g

Terms used: discriminative stimulus, positive reinforcement, positive punishment, antecedent, elicited, emit, behavior, consequence, satiation, deprivation

Discriminative stimuli:

In this clip from "Modern Family", the family dog is eating an expensive shoe of Gloria. After scolding the dog, Gloria tries to get the dog to eat the shoe or her husband so she begins to emit a behavior of eating the shoe to elicit the behavior of eating the shoe to the dog and to cause the behavior of the dog eating her shoes to become extinct. This displays the discriminative stimuli concept.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ElOOuOOIEU&feature=context-shows&list=SL

A: Closet of the bedroom
B: Dog eating the shoe
C: Dog gets yelled at for eating the shoe

This is an example positive reinforcement. The dog is being reinforced to chew shoes, just not Gloria's.

This clip describes discriminative stimuli because Gloria scolds the dog for the previous behavior, eating her shoe.

Satiation:

In this clip from "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie", the boy continues to give a mouse a cookie (the reinforcement) yet the mouse continues to ask for other things, milk, a straw, etc. This clip represents satiation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyBtwe9Ktik

A: In the kitchen
B: Giving the mouse a cookie
C: Asking for more things: milk, straw, etc.

This is an example of positive reinforcement. The boy keeps giving the mouse a cookie, which the mouse enjoys. However, the mouse keeps asking for more, and continues to get what the mouse wants. Because the mouse keeps getting what is desired, the mouse is being positively reinforced with the desired object, continuing the mouse to ask for another object.

During the clip sanitation is demonstrated because the mouse is continuing to ask for a cookie, or any other desired object. And because the mouse is being reinforced in a positive way, the emitted behavior or asking for more objects does not end, but continues.

Deprivation:

In this clip from "Friends", Chandler is sitting in a box and is withheld from speaking to reinforce his friendship to Joey, and to punish Chandler for his actions again Joey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STi7LmuWEuM

A: The coffee house
B: Chandler disrespects Joey
C: Chandler can't talk and is in the box

This is an example of negative punishment. Because Chandler disrespected Joey, he is being negatively punished by not being able to talk.

This is a demonstration of deprivation because Joey is depriving Chandler from talking to punish his and prove his friendship to Joey.

Terms used: discriminative stimuli, emit, elicit, extinct, positive reinforcement, satiation, reinforce, punish, negative punishment

Thursday 9/13/12 Blog Week 4
I wrote this blog on a train in my dream so I didn’t use internet and I will use a tall tale one once created. Thanks!
.One day at work, 5 individuals were working in a warehouse moving and stacking odd and heavy boxes on big trucks from different trucks. These individuals were working away a regular day when a lady[person] walked in and around. One of the individual workers later thought to himself regarding the reduction in individual workers’ vulgar language usage. One noticed that no offensive joking or non-professional advances were made. The individual worker noticed that “maybe in increasing respect for other individuals, I in communicating so, increase a sense of respect in myself.”. -Cicada b. Keller- (2012)

Discriminative Variable
A: a discriminative variable [person] walks into work area

B: work inhabiting individuals significantly reduce usage of offensive, disrespectful language compared to ‘other times’

C: one is treated with sense of respect

Deprivation

A: individual co-worker is present throughout most of work day, and deprives himself of using ‘regular’ language and adapts his own perceptions of respect to treating with sense of respect.

B: co-working individuals significantly reduce usage of offensive language compared to “other times”

C: an individual person is a discriminative variable to oneself (& others)

Satiation

A: one individual emits deprivation of usage of known “cuss” words thought and spoken while at work

B: one other individual co-worker begins also emit deprivation in the use of similar offensive thoughts and words spoken compared to ‘other times’

C: one individual is satiated and becoming habituated by a strong reinforcing value, and maintains deprivation of offensive words spoken at work.
-ebs- 9/13/12 @ 1141hrs. Centric Time

Term% satiation, deprivation, elicit, discriminative variable,
 

Deprivation

This is a clip from one of the Pixar, Ice Age movies. It's about a squirrel named Scrat that is continually chasing after the elusive acorn. Particularly :28-:42

A= Sees the acorn
B= Runs towards the acorn
C= Hits the ice wall

I would call this negative punishment because he loses the acorn and in most cases this would cause an individual to not run into the wall again. It could also be negative reinforcement if he chooses to run into the wall again.

This demonstrates deprivation. Because Srcat is so deprived of acorns, he is willing to emit almost any behavior to get one. Hitting the ice wall might not act as a punishment because he is so deprived of the acorn.

Terms: deprivation, negative punishment, emit, punishment, negative reinforcement.\

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkcthlMnDTM&feature=related

Discriminative stimuli:
In this clip is from the television show "Pepe Le Pew," the cat wants to go on the cruise ship, the ticket checker tells the cat no and kicks her off. She then sneaks under a white fence that is still wet from being painted. The cat gets a white mark on her back from it and ends up looking like a skunk. She then goes aboard the ship and the captain tells everybody to abandon the ship because there is a skunk on board.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_RZ1GIDcR8

A= Skunk gets on the ship
B= All passengers abandon ship
C= Passengers stranded in the ocean

This is an example of negative punishment.

This clip demonstrates discriminative stimuli well because when the cat, looking like a skunk, gets on board of the ship it sets the occasion for a response. The response is all the passengers and crew abandoning the ship because the smelly skunk is on board. The consequence is the passengers being stranded in the ocean.

Satiation:
This clip is from the movie White Chicks, Latrelle and Tiffany go on a date because he had "bought" her at an auction. She eats so much food she cannot eat anymore and even her stomach bulges out of her clothing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI69LVtq6iU

A= At a restaurant
B= Tiffany overeating
C= Becomes extremely full

This is an example of positive punishment.

This clip demonstrates satiation well. Tiffany went out to eat and got extremely full, she did not want the food anymore. It was no longer appealing to her.

Deprivation:
This clip is from a Snickers commercial where two men are at a party talking to girls of interest. One of the guys starts getting angry and mean to the girls for no reason. The friend takes him away and gives him a snickers to make him feel better and tells him "Eat a snickers because you're not you when you're hungry".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3njod6lveI

A= At a party
B= Guy angry because he's starving
C= Friend gives him a snickers and feels better

This is an example of positive reinforcement. He learns he needs to eat before going out so he won't be rude to anyone.

This commercial demonstrates deprivation well. The man is so incredibly hungry his behavior is not normal. He is rude to everybody around him because all he can focus on is his hunger. Giving him the snickers bar makes him feel better.

Terms used: Reinforcement, discriminative stimulus, positive reinforcement, positive punishment, antecedent, behavior, consequence, satiation, deprivation.

These are all on Netflix, so I hope you have an account to watch these. Otherwise I guess I’m kinda screwed.
Discriminative Stimulus
The first clip is from the first episode of the show Better Off Ted (which I highly recommend to everyone; it’s on Netflix Instant). In the clip, we see Lem and Phil in the bathroom, both taking care of daily business of the number two variety. However, their company (who’s insanely evil) has moved the rolls of toilet paper farther from the toilet to discourage employees from using too much, thereby saving money. Phil, having remembered this detail from the last time he used the bathroom, removes the roll of toilet paper and takes it with him to the toilet so he’ll have all the toilet paper he’ll need with ease. Lem is not so resourceful.
(I couldn’t find this anywhere but Netflix, so I hope you have an account so you can watch this)
Watch from 3:24-3:45
http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70140361&trkid=3325853&t=Better+Off+Ted

A: Bathroom with distant toilet paper holder
B: Removal of toilet paper roll
C: Plenty of toilet paper

This is an example of positive reinforcement for Phil, but for Lem this represents negative reinforcement (taking away the luxury of toilet paper will motivate him to remove it like Phil in the future).

The discriminative stimulus in this clip is the distant toilet paper holder. For Phil, this acts as a stimulus eliciting a response to remove the roll and take it with him. For Lem, this acts as a stimulus too late, therefore causing him to emit the response of reaching desperately for an inch of toilet paper. The ABCs show Phil’s scenario. If the antecedent hadn’t involved a toilet paper holder far away from the toilet, Phil wouldn’t have needed to emit a response to take the roll. Since he was rewarded with as much toilet paper as he’d need, Phil is likely to emit this response again.

Discriminative Stimuli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKkkj1VgNus
In this parody of Pee Wee's Playhouse,Pee Wee and his house of characters set up a word of the day. For the rest of the day, whenever someone uses this word everyone in the house is supposed to cheer and celebrate. The word elicits the response no matter what the word. Well in this clip the word is cancer and the mailman has it. When he breaks the news to everyone they emit this celebration response even though he is telling them all very somber news
A- At Pee Wee's Playhouse
B- You say Cancer
C- Everyone Cheers

This is an example of positive reinforcement because tradiotionally it would elicit the word being used more often. In this text though, I think that it is used as negative reinforcement in actuallity here because the word should be seen as aversive and should make the outcome happen less often. However, on this certain day in Pee Wee's Playhouse, if you tell them you have cancer and it is malignant, they will be happy for you...

Satiation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lKuAT1chmI
In this video, a man walks into a store to buy more beer. The only problem is that from the looks of him, he has been reinforced with beer to the max. It doesn't appear this man can get any drunker.
A- Having free time
B- Drink beer
C- Have fun and be drunk

This is an example of positive reinforcement. By drinking a beer you are reinforcing the fact that you want to have a good time and are probably being quite successful at it. Here is where satiation comes into play. This man has obviously been reinforceing himself for quite some time. Another beer is not going to make him any drunker, in fact another one and we might start to see some punishment come into play from certain outside parties. He has fullfilled himself and that he is drunk and having a good time, unfortunately it might be time for extinction because another beer may prove to be quite aversive.

Deprivation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WyC6oG9aLo
In this video, a child is being fed in his stroller. Everytime the spoon goes into the food the kid starts emitting these behaviors that would leave you to believe its been starved for the last couple days. He gets all excited and his eyes widen and he starts panting.
A- When the spoon prepares the food
B- The child gets extremely excited
C- and Is fed the contents on the spoon

This is an example of positive reinforcement because the more the kid gets excited the more he is going to get fed. This is a great example of apparent deprivation, because when a person is deprived of food, food increases dramatically in valence. The kid is almost begging to be fed and it is clearly apparent by the behavior he displays when about to be fed.

Terms: Discriminative Stimuli, Elicit, Emit, Positive Reinforcement, Negative reinforcement, Punishment, Extinction, Satiation, Deprivation, Valence, Aversive,

In this video a child is riding their bike down the street and not paying attention runs straight into a mail box. The child proceeds to cry for a split second then get up and go on their way.

A: Riding a bike on the street
B: Running into a mail box
C: Falling over and crying

This is positive punishment because the addition of the mail box into the equation makes it less likely that the child will ride on the street in the future. Side walks were invented for a reason.

The discriminitive stimulus is riding the bike on the street. This sets the kid up to come into contact with the mail box. Had be not been on the street or if he was walking he probably would not have hit the mail box.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otK1ROFzf6s&feature=b-aso

In this next video a girl is participating in the cinnamon challenge. She eats the tablespoon of cinnamon and spits it straight back out because she starts choking on it. She helped prove that it can't be done.

A: Being dared to do the cinnamon challenge
B: Eating a table spoon of cinnamon
C: Choking on it and spitting it out.

This would be positive punishment because it is the addition of cinnamon that elicited the outcome of choking which made it less likely for her to eat a tablespoon is cinnamon in the future.

This demonstrates satiation because she had more cinnamon than needed and something that was previously desirable was not anymore because she had too much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdM_u5y5m5A

This last one is of a guy that is pulling a prank on people. He walks out of a classroom and drops his papers so that they go everywhere. He starts to pick them up until someone stops to help him and once they do he stands up and watches them finish picking up his papers. He continues to do this to many people as the video goes on.

A: Dropping papers
B: Stops picking them up
C: Others continue to pick them up for him

This is an example of positive reinforcement because people come to help him pick up his papers and continue to do so even though he has stopped. He will be more likely to let people pick up his papers in the future because they continue to do so even though he had stopped.

The example of deprivation comes when he stops giving his help. After he has found someone to pick up his papers he deprives them of his own help and simply watches them do it for him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZXdGw-pBZY&feature=plcp

Terms: Punishment, reinforcement, positive, discriminative stimulus, satiation, deprivation, elicit

This is a clip of a man coming to an automatic glass door where it isn’t opening and he decides on slamming his head through the door to get through.
A= man comes to a door confused and it doesn’t open
B= he decides to run at it with his head
C= the door breaks on his head
It is a discriminative stimuli because it is an automatic door where you are supposed to walk up too and it will open but instead of just waiting he runs right through it. literally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbQxDMuBp2k
This is negative punishment
This is a clip of a baby who is super tired and can barely keep her eyes open. But is still trying to eat.
A= the baby girl is eating food but is tired
B= She keeps wanting to fall asleep
C= She is falling asleep as she eats
Its deprivation because it’s something that she needs to naturally stay alive but she keeps waking up for food
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4MMDj1ZwW8
This is positive reinforcment
This is a clip of a couple women who have been running so hard and so long in a marathon that there legs can’t take it anymore
A= long running race
B= legs are exhausted and give out
C= have to crawl across the finish line
This is satiation because after going for so long their legs just can’t take it anymore even though if they would have kept going then they would have finished in a higher place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1UvxxYIv3U
This is negative punishment
terms: discriminative stimuli, reinforce, satiation, deprivation, positive punishment, negative punishment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE_gmsWG4yY&feature=relmfu

This video shows one of the episodes of Man Vs Food, which he emits the behavior of finishing a 72 oz. steak. The reason I believe this is satiation, is because once he completes the challenge of finishing the steak I wouldn't be able to reward him with another.

A= Texas Restaurant
B= Eating a 72 oz. steak
C= Becoming so full, he gets sick

This is an example of positive punishment because it let him know nobody should try to achieve eating that much in one hour. It will decrease the likely hood of him emitting that behavior again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=917mM5b4B1M

This video clip shows one of the episodes of Silent Library. The discriminative stimuli would be the library and how the environment of a library is quiet.

A= Library
B= Being loud while doing challenges
C= Doesn't win the money

This is positive reinforcement, because the likely hood of them being quit increases because they have the chance of winning money.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qIkou5oNXo

This video clip shows a little boy slapping a grown man in the face because he picked up one of his Doritos. This could be a example of deprivation because the man experiences deprivation from the child.

A= Kids house
B= Tells him not to touch the Doritos
C= Kid slaps the man for touching the Doritos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf3kAW85wb4&feature=related

This Disney Pixar clip is titled One Man Band. It is about these two street musicians playing on the street for money. They keep playing more advanced instruments as they compete against each other for this little kid’s coin. Then the coin gets lost down a drain pipe and the kid is mad and wants them to give him a coin. Instead one of the musicians gives him a violin and the kid plays on the street. Within seconds he gets a big bag of money.

This is an example of discriminative stimuli.

A. Street plaza
B. The kid plays music
C. The kid gets a big bag of money

This is an example of positive reinforcement.

The discriminative stimuli is the kid playing versus the other two adults playing and how the kid is the one that got all that money. It sends the message how there is a soft spot for kids. The street plaza is the antecedent where its open to play and the behavior of the kid playing and being the only one to get the consequence of money demonstrates this concept.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kH8TbJeFWM

This clip is called Fat Cat Hunting Mouse. It is about a fat cat that just stares at a mouse for awhile. It eventually chases the mouse but doesn’t eat it. It’s almost like the cat just kills it off principle not because it’s hungry.

This clip is an example of satiation.

A. There is a cat and a mouse
B. The cat chases the mouse
C. The cat kills the mouse

This is an example of positive reinforcement.

Cats are suppose to catch mice and eat them. It’s in their DNA, or so we are taught in kindergarten. That would be the antecedent part. This fat cat however, just looks at the mouse before chasing it. This makes me think the cat is feed way too much so the mouse no longer has appeal to its appetite and the cat just kills it because it’s there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI0CbkNKTCU

This clip is named Carmel’s Catch. It is about a starving cat who hears a bird and gets excited. He then goes up to try and eat it.

This is an example of deprivation.

A. Starving cat is lying down beside a tree.
B. Cat hears the bird.
C. Cat gets excited and salivates.

This is another example of positive reinforcement.

The cat is obviously hungry in this clip (shown when his stomach ripples), implying he has been deprived of food therefore he is in a state of deprivation. This is all part of the antecedent. The hearing of a bird chirp is a behavior that cues in the cat to get excited and salivate as a consequence. The fact that the cat salivates at just the sound of a bird chirping shows how deprived of food he was.

Terms: antecedent, behavior, consequence, discriminative stimuli, satiation, deprivation, positive reinforcement

~A discriminative stimulus is a stimulus associated with reinforcement that exerts control over a particular form of behavior. It acts as a signal for certain behaviors to occur in response to the presence of such stimuli.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y7D0O6fSAk
In this clip, the 1998 Minnesota Vikings use multiple discriminative stimuli to score again the Dallas Cowboys within the first two minutes of the game. This Vikings/Cowboys match (played on Thanksgiving Day, 1998) shows Randall Cunningham throwing the ball nearly 60 yards to rookie wide receiver Randy Moss, #84 for the Vikings. Moss used discriminative stimuli such as lines on the field and his cat-like reflexes to catch the ball and hop into the endzone.
Antecedent- A quarterback (Cunningham, #7) throws a football to a wide receiver
Behavior- Randy Moss evaluates the situation on the field
Consequence- Moss catches the ball
Moss caught only three passes in this game. All three catches were touchdowns, making his smart evaluations on the field very positive reinforcement. He finished the day with 163 receiving yards.
~Deprivation occurs when reinforcers are withheld.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX4IZ5Y22sw&playnext=1&list=PL68C971AC02F35D3C&feature=results_video
In this clip, Curious George (PBS Kids!, 2008) realizes that his plant his deprived of plant food. George compiles leftover food, dirt, leaves and water to make compost material. The video, entitled Mulch Ado About Nothing, shows a creative solutions for recycling and reusing in deprivation situation.
Antecedent- A plant deprived of compost
Behavior- Curious George begins a compost pile
Consequence- The plant grows, happy and healthy
I feel that compiling compost is a positive reinforcement, as it elicits behaviors of recycling.
~Satiation may mean to be satisfied fully.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upm9LnuCBUM

In this clip, Fred Rogers accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. Mister Rogers thanks his family and friends, along with Public Broadcasting and Family Communications. As he encourages the audience and viewers to think of individuals that have helped them throughout their lives, persons in the audience are shown crying and appear to be moved by Mister Roger’s presence and words. Individuals seem to be satisfied fully.
Antecedent- Fred Rogers is recognized for his work in Family Communications.
Behavior- Fred Rogers gives an acceptance speech.
Consequence- Witnessing persons are moved by this precious moment
Fred Rogers was the recipient of two Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, and four Emmy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was bestowed to him in 1997.
Mister Rogers , along with the album Songs From The Neighbor, continues to serve as positive reinforcement for myself and other special individuals.
Terms Used: Discriminative Stimulus, Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence, Deprivation, Satiation, Recycle, Elicit, Reinforcement
SMW 9.13.12 10:10pm

Satiation:
This clip is about people that are out to eat pizza, and eat too much for there comfort level. Within the first 10 seconds of the video they are talking about how they never want to see a pizza again.
A= At a restaurant
B= Over eating pizza
C= Not ever wanting another pizza
This is an example of positive punishment, because the addition of pizza causes the people to decrease the likelihood of eating as much pizza.
The ABC's of this clip show how overeating the pizza can cause someone to become less likely to eat more pizza because they have worn out the feeling of comfort.

Discriminative Stimuli:
This clip is about the College World Series. The discriminative stimulus is the weather which stops the game.
A= At a baseball game
B= Bad Weather occurs
C=Game is delayed
This is an example of negative punishment because the bad weather is taking away the entertainment and causing people to evacuate the stands. The ABC's of the video show how bad weather affects things and how it is a discriminative stimulus.

Deprivation:
This clip is about a group of men that are going through an experiment to test the effects of sleep deprivation. At the beginning of the video the experiment is described and at about 2:55 it talks about what the effects are. This is an example of deprivation because taking away sleep causes exhaustion which makes the need for sleep more desirable.
A= In an experiment house
B= Not sleeping
C= Want sleep
This is an example of negative punishment because by losing sleep a person is likely to sleep more often. The ABC's of this video show the importance of sleep for humans and how not getting sleep can make anyone desire sleep.
Terms: Discriminative stimulus. deprivation, satiation, punishment, reinforcement,

This is a clip from the television show, Powerpuff Girls. Bubbles is excitedly explaining how the tooth fairy works because she received a dollar for her tooth she lost and put under her pillow.

A: In the bedroom
B: Bubbles gets excited about getting a dollar under her pillow
C: Bubbles realizes how much money she could get for putting her teeth under her pillow

This is a positive reinforcement because after Bubbles puts her tooth under her pillow, she receives a dollar.

This is an example of discriminative stimulus because the dollar under Bubbles's pillow in exchange for her tooth elicits her behavior to be excited to put her next tooth under her pillow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_d_yeUjhg

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This is a clip from the movie Finding Nemo where Marlin and Dory get taken in by three sharks who are befriending fish instead of eating them. Dory decides to ask the sharks if they can read the writing on the mask, but Marlin is telling her not to ask them. In their tussle, Dory ends up getting hit in the face with the mask and starts to bleed. Bruce (the great white) gets a whiff of her blood and goes into crazy hunger mode because he has deprived himself of fish.

A: Bruce not eating fish but befriending them
B: Dory gets hit in the face with the mask and bleeds
C: Bruce gets hungry after he smells the blood

This is a positive reinforcement because the addition of the smell of blood reinforces Bruce to eat fish, like Dory.

This is an example of deprivation because Bruce hasn't eaten fish in a long period of time so when he smells Dory's blood he is reinforced to try to eat her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWRIR39N8WA

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This is a clip of three guys being spun on a very small merry-go-round which ends up being too much for one of them because he faints during the ride.

A: The merry-go-round
B: Three guys spinning on the merry-go-round
C: One guy faints from too much fun

This is a negative punishment because the guy loses consciousness from having too much fun on the merry-go-round. There was a limit to how much of the reinforcer he could have until it became a punisher.

This is an example of satiation because one of the three guys use to be reinforced by spinning on the merry-go-round, but he had too much of a good thing and fainted. Spinning on the merry-go-round became aversive for him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMu9zPLtghE

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Terms: Behavior, Elicit, Aversive, Reinforce, Reinforcer, Positive Reinforcement, Punish, Punisher, Negative Punishment, Discriminative Stimulus, Deprivation, and Satiation

Discriminative stimuli:
1. This video demonstrates a traffic light at crosswalk that has video game interface on it.
2. Discriminative stimuli.
3.A. The green light shows up. B. People cross the street. C. No one gets hit by a car.
4. Negative reinforcement.
5. The film demonstrates that red and green lights are discriminative stimuli. People emit the behavior of crossing street only when they detect a specific signal. When people see the antecedent, they begin to cross the street. The consequence is that they walk safely when there is a green light.
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQqAxB5DjgQ

Satiation:
1. If you are looking for a sure way to end your appetite, Epic Meal Time is definitely your best bet. This video shows you how to make a huge sandwich and then eat it.
2. Satiation.
3.A. The sandwich is ready. B. People eat the sandwich. C. People feel full.
4. Positive reinforcement.
5. The film shows how satiation is achieved by eating huge amount of food. The process of preparing the antecedent is shown in the film. The behavior itself is relatively short, and the consequence is not clearly shown in the film.
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNXrF-xWb2w

Deprivation:
1. This video shows how a little girl is deprived of water by a dog.
2. Deprivation.
3.A. A dog drinks before a girl. B. The girl yells at the dog and push it away. C. The girl gets to drink water.
4. Negative reinforcement.
5. The film illustrates the process of how to make water more reinforcing to people. The antecedent is the dog getting into the way to the reinforcer. The behavior of the girl is then reinforced by the consequence of getting water.
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhYb01Rf9qU

Terms: discriminative stimulus, negative reinforcement, emit, antecedent, consequence, satiation, positive reinforcement, deprivation, reinforcer, reinforce

Stimulus: This clip is from the tv show How I Met Your Mother. Marshall, Barney and Ted are sitting in a coffee shop. When they get their coffees, Barney’s cup says “Swarley”. This causes Barney to become upset when Ted and Marshall decide to start calling him “Swarley”. Ted, Marshall and the rest of the group think this is hilarious.

A- The coffee cup saying “Swarley”.
B- Barney sighing out of exasperation.
C- The group laughs.

This is an example of positive reinforcement.
This is a good example of discriminative stimulus because it’s something small that elicited the response from Barney. It shows that something as small as someone mishearing your name can cause you to become annoyed or upset you. It shows discriminative stimulus well because calling Barney “Swarley” elicited a response strong enough for his friends to continue reinforcing themselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfN1E5pSWwA

Satation: This clip is from the movie Easy A. Olive’s friend Rhianne has just called her asking whether or not she hooked up with a guy at a party. Olive gets offended when Rhianne calls her a “dirty skank”. Olive than hangs up the throws her phone.

A- On the phone with Rhianne.
B- Rhianne calls Olive a dirty skank.
C- Olive throws her phone.

This is an example of negative punishment.
This is a good example of satiation because Olive gets fed up with Rhianne calling her a dirty skank so she hangs up immediately. It shows satiation because throughout the movie Rhianne calls her names and it starts to annoy/bother Olive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZtMR9PZcmI

Deprivation: This clip is from the Disney movie Aladdin. The Sultan is coming to the courtyard to talk to Jazmine about her many suitors and how she won’t marry any of them. Jazmine is exhasperated because her father won’t let her pick the man she marries. After this scene, she escapes to the city to walk around the market place and meets Aladdin.

A- The Sultan scolding Jazmine
B- Jazmine runs away
C- Jazmine meets Aladdin

This is an example of positive reinforcement.
This is a good example of deprivation because Jazmine complains about how she is deprived of living her own life and picking whoever she wants to marry. Since Jazmine is a princess, she has to marry a prince and she likes none of them. When she meets Aladdin, her whole world changes. She falls in love quickly and is no longer deprived of a “normal” life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH1cRQIBNF0

Terminology: positive reinforcement, satiation, deprivation, discrimative stimulus, negative punishment, elicit.

This video is an example of discriminitive stimuli. It is a video from imporv everywhere, which is an improvisation group that does really funny videos and skits all the time. The video is of an African American man that sets up a stand in a place where it is predominantly Caucasian people and he puts on his sign “meet a black person”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyRwrrggxok

The sign he has is a discriminative stimuli because the sign is telling people what to do, which is come up to the man and meet him. There is also positive reinforcement in this video as people come up to him. His behavior is pleasing and friendly so they talk to him, making them want to stick around his stand. As they are doing that more people are reinforced to come talk to him, and see why people are gathering around him.

A=ski lodge
B=Greeting people with sign that says “meet a black person”
C=people come and say hi and meet him

In this video there is an example of satiation and deprivation. For satiation, around 5:40 Squidward has moved to a new place to live, and he is able to do all the things he wants to do over and over again, without fear of Spongebob ruining his fun.

http://spongebob.nick.com/videos/clip/squidville-full-episode.html

This is satiation, because as time goes on with him repeating these actions, he gets tired of doing them and he is not reinforced to do these fun activities. He basically becomes ‘full’ of these activities. This would be positive punishment, because they are usually fun to do, but he no longer has the reinforcement to repeat these activities.

A=new home
B=doing fun activities
C=gets tired of doing them over and over again

In this same video around 6:44, Squidward was reinforced to do these activities because SpongeBob wasn’t around anymore, but as time goes on and he is being deprived of Spongebob, he starts to miss all of Spongebob’s shenanigans and goes kind of crazy and eventually starts to elicit behavior like Spongebob. This part of the video is positive reinforcement because as other characters start to get angry at his behavior, he is wanting to manipulate his behavior more and more like how Spongebob behaves.

A=New home
B=deprived of Spongebob being in his life
C=Starts acting silly and like Spongebob

terms: discriminative stimuli, positive reinforcement, behavior, pleasing. reinforced, satiation, deprivation, positive punishment, elicit, manipulate

1. This is a clip from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. The main character Ace has a phobia of bats and has to go into a cave that is infested with them in order to find evidence. Ace throws his torch, which is his only source of light, at what he thinks is a bat and is then swarmed by them while fleeing the cave.
Discriminative stimulus
A= in cave filled with bats
B= throw torch
C= swarmed by bats
Positive punishment
This is an example of discriminative stimulus because Ace is afraid because he is in the cave filled with bats. Due to his fear, he throws his torch when he hears the slightest squeak from a bat in the cave, which causes him to be in the dark with the bats, which causes him to scream and disturb all of the bats. He then is swarmed by bats and flees the cave because of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t3vJrl59iY

2. This is a clip from John Pinette’s stand-up comedy special “I’m Starvin”. In the clip, John explains that he is doing a job over in France and is tired of eating French food. He says that he hasn’t had Italian food in forever and wants it more than anything.
Deprivation
A= in France
B= craving Italian food
C= drives to Italy
Positive reinforcement
This is an example of deprivation because John hasn’t had Italian food in a long time and craves it immensely. He wants to eat it so much that he drives over to Italy in order to eat some Italian food.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpMkRIXhLH0 (ends at about 2:00)

3. This is the later part of the same clip from John Pinette’s comedy special. In this part of the clip, John explains that while at the Italian restaurant, the servers won’t stop bringing out food even though they’ve eaten all they want to. He says that they have to flee the restaurant in order to not be fed to death.
Satiation
A= eating at Italian restaurant
B= eating too much
C= no longer interested in Italian food
Positive punishment
This is an example of satiation because while the Italian food is a reinforcer at first, after 3 or 4 courses of it, John is too full to eat anymore and is no longer interested or able to eat more Italian food.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpMkRIXhLH0 (starting at 4:00)

terms: discriminative stimulus, satiation, deprivation, positive punishment, positive reinforcement

Clip 1: Discriminative Stimuli

All of my clips for this post are coming from the show Once Upon A Time (Season 2 starts on September 30th!!!). The first one I will be using is the pilot episode called ‘Pilot’. In this clip (first two minutes), Henry has found his birth mother Emma. Emma is trying to keep her composer and get Henry back to the family that she thinks he belongs with so he can have a happy life. That is until Henry shows how smart he really is by saying that if she calls the cops to come pick him up that he will tell them that she kidnapped him.

A = Emma’s apartment
B = Tries to find a way to send Henry back home (nothing works)
C = Takes Henry to Storybrooke herself

Positive reinforcement for Henry because not only is he getting to spend time with his birth mother (positive) but he is also getting Emma to come back to Storybrooke with him (reinforcement, he accomplished his goal). This experience starts for Emma starts out as positive punishment because the time with her son is being given to her but Emma does not want the experience to happen again.

This interaction between Emma and Henry is demonstrating discriminative stimuli because in the situation Emma is faced with he either calls the cops and gets arrested herself or takes Henry home herself. She chooses to drive him home to avoid any confrontation. The antecedent is the setting they are in (Emma’s apartment). The behavior Emma is taking part in is tiring to find a way to send her son back to his family and it doesn’t work. The consequence of the behavior is that Emma drives Henry home herself.

Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmCUjWtoZNk

Clip 2: Satiation

Once again I have chosen a very long clip and I will only be focusing on 30 seconds of it. This episode is called ‘Skin Deep’ (a.k.a the Beauty and the Beast episode or the Valentine’s Day episode) and the clip I am using is from time 05:10 to 05:43. This is one of my favorite episodes! This clip features Rumpelstiltskin (Beast) at his spinning wheel and Belle (Beauty) in the middle of her cleaning duties. The focus of this clip is Belle asking Rumpelstiltskin why he spins straw into gold when he already has so much wealth.

A = Dinning area (I wasn’t sure what to call that room, tea room?)
B = Rumpelstiltskin spinning straw into gold
C = He forgets his past (so he says)

Negative reinforcement. Rumpelstiltskin is having his bad memories suppressed (taken away), since these are bad memories he tends to not favor remembering them. When this happened he is more likely to keep working at the spinning wheel because not remembering makes him happy. His spinning wheel hobby is likely to increase in frequency.

I can’t figure out what to call the room they are in, I’m thinking something between a dinning and tea room but I’m just not sure. I heard that a lot of extra scenes were cut from this episode regarding some of the artifacts in the room so I would almost go as far as to say that it might be a trophy room. The behavior that Rumpelstiltskin is emitting is spinning straw into gold at a spinning wheel. The consequence is that the straw is turned into gold, but he has already made so much that he is not doing it for the aspect of wealth but for a more personal reason. The gold just ends up being a by-product of his hobby at the spinning wheel.

Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo7vdM-HaLM

Clip 3: Depravation
The title of the clip really says it all; “Mr. Gold Beats The Crap Out of Moe French”. This clip is also from the episode called ‘Skin Deep’. In this scene (in our world), Mr. Gold (Rumpelstiltskin) is trying to find out where his chipped cup is. This cup is important because it is the one that his true love (Belle) broke, it is the only thing he has that was from her. At this point in the show, Mr. Gold has not proven or disproven enough to show how much he remembers of fairy tale land. And Moe French (Belle’s Father) did in fact steal the cup from Mr. Gold.

A = Mr. Gold’s cabin in the woods
B = Information about stolen item through physical violence
C = Not messing with Mr. Gold ever again

Positive punishment. The physical harm was being added and it is definitely something that will prevent Mr. French from stealing from Mr. Gold ever again.

The clip demonstrates depravation by showing the increasing level of violence that Mr. Gold uses on Mr. French because Mr. French is withholding the information that Mr. Gold desperately wants. The setting even shows depravation because Mr. Gold brought Mr. French to a secluded cabin so that he would be less likely stopped or questioned. The behavior of not cooperating and questioning Mr. Gold only worked at increasing the violence. The consequences of the depravation that Mr. Gold experienced that resulted in violence will also result in Mr. French not wanting any contact with Mr. Gold.

Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZOId396y9c&playnext=1&list=PL4A8A44558C7CE8F3&feature=results_main

Terms: depravation, positive punishment, positive reinforcement, discriminative stimuli, antecedent, consequence, negative reinforcement, satiation, and emitting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvYtbd7YE3k

This is a clip from "The Great Outdoors" movie where Chet waves to the boat and the people in the boat mistake it as a sign to go ahead and go.

A= Boat is waiting
B= Chet waves
C= Boat takes off

This is an example of positive punishment.

This clip shows discrimitive stimuli because Chet waving acted like a signal for the boat to go ahead and take off. The wave was a stimuli which elicited his family to take off in the boat. Therefore not only will Chet think before he waves again, but his family members will probably rethink what each wave can mean in the future when boating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_215iQ7KDs

This clip is from the movie "The Great Outdoors". It's a scene where Chet has to eat an entire steak, called the 69er" and if he succeeds, his entire table gets their meals free.

A= Out to eat with familu
B= Eating Steak, "69er"
C= Overeating

This is an example of positive punishment.

The clip demonstrates satiation because Chet thought he could try the "69er" and maybe finish it. A crowd froms, adding pressure, and Chet ends up overeating and getting sick. Therefore, he probably will omit eating steak in his near future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3CHQf63Qtg

This is also a scene from the movie "The Great Outdoors" where racoons keep going through the garbage cans and knocking them over.

A= Set trash out
B= Racoons eat it
C= Knock over garbage cans

This is an example of positive reinforcement.

This shows deprivation because the racoons can't find food elsewhere so they keep coming back to the same garabage cans because they know food will be there. Therefore, the garbage cans get knocked over, making Chet and his family mad.

Terms used:
Discrimitive stimuli, satiation, deprivation, positive punishment, stimuli, omit, elecit, and positive reinforcement.

This is a segment from the Today Show on NBC. Al Roker typically announces the national weather and then cues the switch over to local news with his quote, “and here’s what’s happening in your neck of the woods.” This clip showed what happened in DC when it wasn’t switched over to local news and the staff still had their microphones on. Al was repeating, “blah blah blah,” until he was cued to continue with other news. A staff member in the background counting backwards from 7 is a discriminative stimulus letting the cast know that local news time is up and they must continue with the Today Show.

A= hear the backwards counting
B= everyone gets really quiet
C= everyone is prepared

This is an example of positive reinforcement. The countdown is an added discriminative stimulus that elicits silence and preparation. The countdown is reinforcing because it increases the likelihood that the staff will emit the response of quieting down, so they are prepared for the subsequent segment of the program. Without the countdown, staff members wouldn’t know when to stop chatting and saying, “blah blah blah.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ISFmxi_6I&feature=g-ent
Terms: discriminative stimulus, positive reinforcement, elicits, emit, response,

Cliff Huxtable of the Cosby Show had a serious love of sausage sandwiches, even though they were notorious for causing him to have weird nightmares if they were eaten too late at night. In this clip, despite Clair’s warning, Cliff ate a sausage sandwich before going to bed and suffered from a nightmare. This final nightmare is a demonstration of satiation. If consumed during the day, sausage sandwiches provide and appetitive addition to Cliff’s diet; however, after having continuous nightmares after eating the sandwich before bed, Cliff’s desire to eat them became satiated.

A= almost time for bed
B= Cliff ate a sausage sandwich
C= Cliff suffered from a nightmare that finally taught him not to eat sausage sandwiches before bed

The clip shows positive punishment. Eating at night elicits the nightmares and the addition of nightmares became an aversive stimulus for the sausage sandwich, decreasing the likelihood that Cliff will desire to eat a sandwich before bed again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irpYBes04dg&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Terms: positive punishment, aversive stimulus, appetitive, satiated, elicits,

This clip is from a portion of one of the best shows on earth, Roseanne. She is teaching her daughter’s class how to shop for groceries and feed a family on a tight budget. While in the store, she starts talking about how supermarkets have so many different options, and how you shouldn’t shop when you’re hungry, because hunger elicits the desire to purchase more than you would typically get. This is an example of deprivation, because everything sounded appetitive to her since she was deprived of food, or simply, hungry.

A= being hungry in a grocery store
B= wanting to buy every different pizza option offered
C= spending too much money on impulse purchases

This clip shows deprivation through negative reinforcement. If Roseanne is deprived of food until she is hungry, the likelihood of her impulse shopping at the grocery store will increase.

Terms: deprivation, negative reinforcement, elicits, appetitive,