Skinner Box - Lever Press

[shoemama]

Awsome!



[Botje101]

How did you make this box?

[TheCtownn]

sooo cute:)

[Freeindividua2]

This box was mentioned in "Michael Prince Interview-Nazi_NSA Cybernization of Children" documentary interview.

[JessJDGAF]

Where can I get a skinner box???

[thehbcrew]

@JessJDGAF

any luck finding one

[mininow]

@JessJDGAF Start playing World of warcraft, if you don't mind being a rat.

[luiscaballero77]

give it the messenger :D

[KoenIsDeBoy]

hahah 

[bubbajimmy8]

Mau5 

[Stillillgal]

he so stupid

why he cant just click a few times and then he had a meal :P

[Neverhoodian]

DING! Your character is now level 2!

DING! Your character is now level 3!

DING! Your character is now level 4!

DING! Your character is now level 5!

DING! Your character is now level 6!

DING! Your character is now level 7!

DING! Your character is now level 8!

DING! Your character is now level 9!

DING! Your character is now level 10!

DING! Your character is...well, you know the drill...

[Denjin384]

@Neverhoodian did you have fun writing all that? ;)

[badmuts92]

@Neverhoodian you play to many world of warcraft :P

[gambithold]

@Neverhoodian if hes only got the trial version hes in the shit

[RaduRoman]

That's one hungry animal:))

[frickinmatchbox]

Before you know it, this is going to be one very fat rat! ;)

[Norrec87]

I think it looks at least as happy as I do when i play my games.

[kevz2008]

anyone know where i can get one of those electric grids used by researchers on lab rats? my cousin wants to try it on his pet hamster lol i an assure you he's not gonna cause any tremendous pain. just a way to teach that dumb hamster some things and also for educational purposes.

[neijen999]

I thought skinner was crazy to make animal tests, but now i see this it doesn't look like he mistreated them... or did he?

[slmoore32]

@neijen999 - He didn't the mistreatment was long before his days when phiosophers stil believed in dogma. A good example is Descartes. Descartes believed animals did not have souls and therefore did not have feelings. This was before anesthesia and reseachers were allowed to conduct experiments on live animals. They considered the yelps and cries to be nothing more than the hydraulic hisses and vibrations of machines. Very sad, difficult to type, part part of history.

[Jenna1171]

i think this video is good for educational use as it is amazing how the rat learns to push the leaver. This is operant conditioning isnt it?

however this is unethical for many reasons!

[nao1163]

how cuteeeee

[disbuylshite]

Oh look, it's somebody playing Wow.

[amandaleeXx]

whaddup prof ploski

[Malaloes2]

Well done Eddy!

[met3ors]

Hi Jonas!!!

[MalaLezka]

ale spryciuch :)

[xbritaxxx]

@ tnigo1...wot exactly do u mean?

[Batmanfan1993]

You do know that B.F Skinner but his own daughter in a box like this?

[lcoulte2]

@Batmanfan1993

That's not exactly True. If you watch the documentary about him, his daughters explain that the "box" they were in was simply a temperature/humidity controlled sleeping chamber to keep the babies comfy. They didn't spend any more time in it than any other babies in a normal crib.

[ac2763]

Did you know that you believe everything you hear?

[IaIaCthulhuFthagn]

The story about his daughter is an urban legend. YouTube won't let me post the link, but google "deborah skinner" and look for the article that she wrote for the Guardian.

[xbritaxxx]

am amazed...ow does dis rat knw he's gon get a reward by pressing d lever aneway..ow clever is dat...i need dis for my unfinshed essay..phew!

[Tnig01]

@xbritaxxx you wrote an essay? I'd hate to be the one reading it. It's hard to find people butcher the enlgish language that badly.

[Bluesage2009]

same conditioning used on video slot machines. Only they spread out the reinforcers.

same conditioning you get from the pretty woman saying "cya you soon" and subsequent caffiene/suger/fat hit when buying a filthy burger meal from Mc Death.

[clayLavl]

i had psych class. we used white mice.

[CptMystery]

Awesome! Now how many years does that rat have to go to church and live in self-denial to get the eternal cheese?

[mads2jensen]

Good work :-)

[twilight264]

that's awesome :) perfect for my school project. thank you.

[Jenna1171]

@twilight264

do you take psychology? i do and i really enjoy it.

[twilight264]

@Jenna1171 yes, I do and I absolutely love it! it's terribly interesting :)

[jenna6558]

@twilight264

its me jenna but i acidently deleted my acoountt :/ :(

yeah i had the exam todayy :) i really interestingg isntt it :) x

[twilight264]

@jenna6558 really? you had the exam?

I'm having my exam in November :(

psychology is my last exam.

I'm glad it isn't my worst subject :)

[jenna6558]

@twilight264

yeah but to be honest i revised al the wrong stuff :( butt myteacher didnt really help soo it was hard :(

aww :) am sure you will do greatt :) x

[twilight264]

@jenna6558 I'm sure you'll do great :)

psych is okay because it's more about understanding, rather than memorising. it's always easier to understand, I believe.

[jenna6558]

@twilight264

thanks :D

yeahh you too :') yeah thats truee and if you believe in yourself then you will suceed :')

[fsujci]

woo skinner box! That lever's like crack

[LifeOnTheMoon]

how long does it take for the rat to learn how to get the reward?

[canigetanavailable]

usually a few minutes of searching

[thegirlleastlikelyto]

the click the lever makes is strangely satisfying to hear.

[Synchestra1]

@thegirlleastlikelyto

yeah it really is

[ErikErdmann]

Herr Plutz, ist zwar der beste Biolehrer eväääär, aber das mit der blöden Zitrone kapier ich nich...

Hund und Wurst!

[XOdirtylitlesecretXO]

wow that rat is clever XD

[PobbleRedFlannel]

Moron!

Rats love this stuff! If you don't keep your rattie occupied they get very destructive, including self destructive.

Skinners operant conditionng was wholly based on existing abilities/urges...

Skinnerising rats allows you to teach them all sorts of stuff, and you can them make them all sorts of games, mazes etc.

Any dickhead who reckons such stuff is sick, or that the rat is suffering is mad...... and I bet if TheFrogster had pets they'd all run away to my house if they could!

[RyuTrysSword]

@PobbleRedFlannel didn't Thorndike do the operant conditioning and Skinner "only" expanded one of the three 'laws'; the law of effect?

@neijen999 there where shocks included too, duno if you call that mistreading.

[walgoot]

nice :)

[omarqaqish]

Wow. So cool. We just studied this in class today.