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
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