It's striking how rapidly I can generate a large number of spaced repetition prompts using clozes when writing prose notes like notes.andymatuschak.org/The_cognitive_.
I notice that I have to write carefully (eg to avoid "giving away" deletions), and the prompts are lower-quality. But fast!
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How does the experiment mentioned "contradict behaviorism"?
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Specifically, a behaviorist might say "The rat was exposed to unanalyzed contingencies prior to the introduction of cheese into the environment." That is, the contingencies arranged by a maze without cheese are what may explain the behavior with cheese rather than some cogmap
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I'm still a naive student of behaviorism, but my understanding of the argument is:
The contingencies of the environment cause some change in the rat which is unobservable in its behavioral response—but which nevertheless meaningfully alters subsequent response.
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It has been easier for me to learn QED in order to translate its foundations into the language of Geometric Analysis than it has for me to learn and explain not only behaviorism but also its radical offshoot. Radical Behaviorism is described in "About Behaviorism" by Skinner
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I am tired now, and if I wrote a response it would not be very helpful: by tomorrow I should have something more substantial and comprehensive
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