My doggy

 

My dog acts really wild and crazy whenever she comes back inside from playing outside or a while. I wanted to reverse that action, I decided I would make her sit down whenever she came inside from being outside.

I decided that my dog reacts well to treats, so I used those first as a reward. Soon she learned that whenever she came in, she would recieve a treat. After that I would make her sit before she recieved the treat, whenever she would do that without the command she would get a treat. Soon i was able to not use the treat, when she came inside, she would sit next to the door, I would pet her and then she would be allowed to get up and do what she wanted to do.

 

Kayla Ramsey

Self Identity

    In class we learned that your identity is what makes you who you are. It can be a physical or mental characteristic. I think my sister Rebecca has had a major impact on my identity.

    From as long as I can remember my sister has always been a funny, loving person. She has shaped me to do all the things I do today. From being secretary of SADD, to being apart of my church youth group, she has done it all. I use to want to be just like her, so i did these things without a reason except just that. Now that i am older though, i see why she did the things she did, it was to help others, it was not so she could go around saying, i've done this, and this and this, it was so she could feel good about herself. And that is one thing that has helped me become who I am.

    One other way she has helped form my identity is that, when I meet someone new, I will most likely start a conversation and I could talk with them for hours. For my sister she is much more shy then I am. I did not want to be shy and I wanted to be able to meet someone new and become friends with them. This is another way my sister shaped my identity.

Identity Post

As we learned from the video and in class, your identity is who you are, and everyone around you can shape it. My parents I think, are the biggest impacts on my identity. Of course, friends play a huge role, but when it comes down to it, and if you really think about it, their the only people who will be involved in your life, your whole life.     My parents brought me up to always be a good student. That reflects on how I am today. My grades are good, and I'm applying to good colleges, hoping to get in. This wouldn't of been possible if my parents didn't praise me at an early age to get involved and really care about my grades.     My parents also brought me up to be a good person, and to care about others. Because of this, by my own choice, I do community service to help others, I help out at my church and really like getting involved. It my parents never stressed being a good person and doing good deeds, I may just not even care about others, but that isn't the way I am today.     Let's see, if my parents moved to Alaska, that would be very difficult for me. Since I've seen them just about every day of my life, I'd feel lost and confused, because face it, we all need our parents to grow up, and if their not there, it just feels as if something's missing.   Nicki Messina

Operant Conditioning Post

p     When I get a moment off from either work or school, I like to sit down and watch television or a movie. My sister, the little annoying person she is, likes to really get on my nerves. She'll stand in front of the television like it's no big deal just to block my view. So I decided to throw something at her everytime she does it.     I tried it, the first time, she just threw it back at me. Then it really started bugging her and I think she got a sense of what she was doing to me. I didn't think this would actually work but I shaped her behavior, she no longer stands in front of the television, but off to the side. She got really annoyed by being hit, so she figured it wasn't worth her time.     I think an environmental factor could be that I was yelling at her too, and yelling in any form can be a huge reinforcement because us as humans, usually take very sensitive to someone rasiing their voice.     Anyways, this experiment worked!   Nicki Messina

Identity

A relationship in my life that has affected me is my girlfriend Chelsea. I have known her for a little over a year now but we have been through a lot together. She has also affected me because we have a lot of the same interests so I enjoy having her company because I can talk about things I like. Also my life has become a lot more interesting because she tells me stories about her family and I can relate them to my family. Also, we have developed inside jokes from these stories. We have alot of similar favorite foods, sports, and activities to do in our free time. This has made our relationship better because we know we wont get bored. I thought I was one of the only people I know who like the smell of gasoline, but I found out she likes it too. This affects me because its another thing we have similar.   We like to watch movies, play board and video games, vacation, babysit, drive around town, study, run and do homework with each other. We do this stuff a couple times a week, and it occurs at one of our houses, or around town or in school. Over the summer, I went to disney world with her and her family. This really made our relationship stronger because we spent almost two weeks straight with each other. While there, her parents let me drive her sister, her brother, and her to some of the parks that they weren't going to. We got lost twice while I was driving. This actually made our relationship with not only her but everybody in her family because it gave us something to laugh about. If she moved to Alaska i would probably become very depressed and sadden by her leaving. I would miss her a lot. However, I would try to stay in touch by writing letters or if she has the internet, try to stay in touch over that. It won't be the same though because she not with me or I'm not hearing her voice. Our relationship would probably change.   Jake Chernesky

Identity

A relationship in my life that has affected me is my girlfriend Chelsea. I have known her for a little over a year now but we have been through a lot together. She has also affected me because we have a lot of the same interests so I enjoy having her company because I can talk about things I like. Also my life has become a lot more interesting because she tells me stories about her family and I can relate them to my family. Also, we have developed inside jokes from these stories. We have alot of similar favorite foods, sports, and activities to do in our free time. This has made our relationship better because we know we wont get bored. I thought I was one of the only people I know who like the smell of gasoline, but I found out she likes it too. This affects me because its another thing we have similar.   We like to watch movies, play board and video games, vacation, babysit, drive around town, study, run and do homework with each other. We do this stuff a couple times a week, and it occurs at one of our houses, or around town or in school. Over the summer, I went to disney world with her and her family. This really made our relationship stronger because we spent almost two weeks straight with each other. While there, her parents let me drive her sister, her brother, and her to some of the parks that they weren't going to. We got lost twice while I was driving. This actually made our relationship with not only her but everybody in her family because it gave us something to laugh about. If she moved to Alaska i would probably become very depressed and sadden by her leaving. I would miss her a lot. However, I would try to stay in touch by writing letters or if she has the internet, try to stay in touch over that. It won't be the same though because she not with me or I'm not hearing her voice. Our relationship would probably change.

Operant Conditioning Post

For my subject whose behavior I attempted to shape, I chose one of my
friends in my Learning Lab. The environment of the experiment was a
casual-atmosphere in a computer lab, while he was at a computer. The
behavior I attempted to shape was the clicking of the mouse; to
prevent this behavior I applied the consequence of a quick corporal
punishment with my hand to his arm. By adding an averse stimulus, a
punishment, I attempted to make the behavior of clicking the mouse
less frequent. Unfortunately, my friend mistook my punches as
attempts to make his mouse drag over the screen, perhaps to cause him
to miss-click. His mouse clicking behavior was not reduced in any
observable way, although he claimed he felt \"weird\" after the
experiment when I did not punch him following his clicks. His
behavior was perhaps unchanged due to the lack of strength in my
blows, as they were more of a small annoyance than a massive aversion.
The fact that punishment is not as effective as positive or negative
reinforcements may also be a contributor.

-Brian Shaginaw

Identity Post

Instead of a strictly positive relationship, I chose my relationship
with my sister. My sister is often unintentionally or intentionally
rude or obnoxious, which creates a great deal of stress on my family
and me. She also occasionally struggles in school, and certainly not
gracefully, either. This not only causes more stress, but prompts my
parents to ask for my help to teach her and keep her on track, which
takes time out of my schedule.

Regardless of all this, she is my sister, and there are times when we
get along great. Recently I have observed that we tend to get along
better when our parents are not around, and she doesn\'t feel that
there is any threat of being chastised for not doing work, which in
turn makes her do her work better. If she were move to Alaska, I
think my life would perhaps become less stressful, but possibly less
eventful.

-Brian Shaginaw

operant conditioning, matt schreiner

 For my experiment I would choose my mom. Sometimes when she comes home from a long day at work she sometimes is too tired and doesn't really feel like making dinner. Me being a growing teenager I am usually looking for a good meal whenever possible and when my mom comes home and says "tough luck I'm too tired" I get quite annoyed. So in order to reduce or possibly stop this behavior of not wanting to cook I set up an experiment to swings things in my favor. The environment is the kitchen at home when she arrives home from work. When my mom smells something good and tasty such as a pie baking or a turkey in the oven she just can't help herself in making more and more food, this impulse to cook/bake more is deirved from smelling something else that is mouth water and that smells delicous. By my lighting scented candles that have the smell of baked goods like cookies, pies, and/or other foods she will hopefully by more likely to bake food when she comes home from work. The overall behavior is her not wanting to bake when she comes home from work, and in order to shape that behavior I will light food scented candles (consequence) in order to make her feel more apt. to make dinner.

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Identity Homework

One person who means a lot to me would be my sister. Our tastes are so similar, that we even have the same friends. We do everything together and are always around each other. We spend a lot of time at home watching tv or talking with each other. Whenever someone has to go shopping or something, we do it together. We are also both involved in stage crew together, which takes up a lot of our time. In school, we don't share classes, but many of our teachers are the same, so we tell each other what went on in previous classes and warn each other about pop quizzes and things. My sister and I are so close that sometimes we know what the other person is thinking.

            If my sister moved to Alaska, I would be very upset. Without her, my life would be so different. She is always around, so to have her gone would almost make me feel lonely. I wouldn't have someone I could always talk to about anything anymore. We have been together all our lives, so for her not to be readily available would definitely be new for me. I think eventually I could learn to live with her being so far away, but it would be difficult at first.

 

 

Kristen Bianchi

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Operant Conditioning my sister

Sara McFadden
Operant Conditioning
When I am watching TV in the family room, my sister, Morgan, always comes in the room and annoys me until I change the channel to something she wants to watch. The environment is the family room when I am watching TV. The behavior I want to change is my sister whining and complaining and throwing stuff at me. I wanted to reinforce the behavior of her staying out of the family room while I was watching TV so I gave her candy when she stayed out of the room. This worked until she started standing outside the doorway and begging for more candy.

jeremy mattas identity project

    One very big part of my personality is the need to find challenges and adventure like sports and camping. Two people that have really affeced my choices over the last several years is my Aunt Donna and Uncle Jim. When ever I have a new challenge i always go to them for support and suggestions.

 

    During the summer me and my uncle Jim ride anywhere from 20 to 100 miles on any given weekend. Me and my aunt usually run a few miles after i come back for my bike ride with my uncle. my aunt also usually has a nice meal prepared for us when we return from our biking treks. Sometimes my uncle and i do organized bike rides of various bike lengths geneally 75 to 100 miles. my aunt and i usually stick to running we run several 5k's  a year and we have a 5 year tradition of running the first night 5k in saratoga annualy on new years eve.

 

    My aunt and my uncle surely got me into running and cycling and other sports like triathlons. i owe a lot that i have accomplished to both of them. if they moved to alaska or anywhere far away i'm sure that i would still participate in sports because they helped introduce me to them and they wouldnt want me to quit and neither would i. i'm sure it wouldn't be as fun without them and it would be harder without their support bu they have to taught me a lot about perserverance and i'm sure that i would succeed with or without them here. it just wouldnt be the same if they left and i would be missing telling them about my latest accomplishments or ideas that i had in mind.

Blackboard

Mr Thomas,

I have been trying to login to blackboard site, by typing in blackboard.com. I know, very silly of me. But the good news is that I figured this out in class today when we were using blackboard in class for the discussions. However that leaves the remaining two homework assignments that I will receive zeros for, and I was wondering if i could somehow make those up? I did them on paper after asking Lydia what the assignment was the nights that I couldn't login. Would you like me to show them to you next time you come in? or type them up and send via e-mail?

I hope everything is going well with your new addition!

-Leah

jennie politano

* Homework: In class today we talked about and watched video examples of operant conditioning. I want you to explore this technique by using it to shape the behavior of another person. Pick some small behavior and a key environmental structure or aspect, and then use reinforcement (some consequence) to make the behavior stronger or more frequent.   Talking out of Turn/Talking Back When you do something you aren't supposed to and are caught parents, they will lay down the law. That doesn't mean they are going to take something away but they could tell/yell at you and explain what rule was broken and how you did it. If you talk back to them, testing their leadership/place a lot of parents will begin to yell if they haven't already and usually make a threat or just take something away from you. If you continue to talk back to your parents most likely they will follow through will there threat of taking something away, not always an object could be your freedom. Ways to change this The rules and consiquences should be known before youchooses to do something they aren't.  The first time will be a warning, the second your cell phone will be taken away for a week and etc. If the child talks back you could keep taking privlages away.  That might not be teaching the kid much but it's better then just yelling. OR If you do something wrong and are caught, the parent should tell you what you had done wrong and what you should've done instead.  If the child does talk back don't respond, if they want the last word let them have it but next time they ask for a favor or wants to go do something tell them no and tell them why, so they know what they did wrong and that is the consequence of talking back.