or the requirement that the agent perceive a connection between its actions and the stimulus means there's such a thing as reinforcement capture, where you convince the agent that what it did that you want conditioned is what generated the reinforcing stimulus instead of what did
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but we can't have these conversations because literal psychology professors will tell you in a classroom that "negative reinforcement" is a fancy term for punishment, and even if they don't fuck that up the chances of "positive punishment" passing their lips are nil
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and okay, this is a a time-hallowed way of generating secret knowledge, hiding it in plain sight behind a wall of absolute garbage folk interpretation, and technically i should probably be pleased by that but i'm not. i'm just not
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Can you give an example of this
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timeouts are probably the clearest one; both negative (removal of attention) and positive (restriction of action) punishment, not ended until child “settles down” and accepts the punishment as normal, at which point reinforcement can be generated by its removal
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