 Hi there. It's Ryan here. You kind of caught me in the middle of something, but I figured it might just be a good example. I think today's topic or this video's topic should be about contingency-shaped versus rule-governed behavior. Contingency-shaped and rule-governed. I mean, that's all we got here, right? A polish in the car. There's a whole bunch of things that can go wrong. So we talk about contingency-shaped versus which involves the direct connection with the contingencies of actually doing a job, right, and actually engaging in the behavior. The rule-governed stuff is just following a particular rule. Move your hands back and forth, so on and so forth. So we're going to look at the differences between those things. So in the meantime, let me get back to polishing this thing. I'll finish it up for you, and we'll give you an update here in a little bit with some of the more details about what we're talking about with contingency-shaped. Oh, by the way, I really don't like the term rule-governed, and it implies that there's this physical thing called the rule with which there's not. So I'd really like us to think more about rule-following behavior. So again, rule-following behavior versus contingency-shaped is getting in my hair. All right. Cheers. See you in a bit. I've been working on the car for a little bit, and I just want you to know a couple of things. I said that I was going to come back, and I was going to talk about contingency-shaped versus rule-governed behavior. My gosh, you've probably heard that 50 times in this video alone. So I figured I'd give you a good example here. So the idea is contingency-shaped means you've actually come into contact with the real contingency. Your behavior is doing something, and it's getting reinforced, punished, extinguished, so on and so forth. Rule-governed or rule-following, as I like to call it, means that you're following a rule, and you've learned to follow rules in the past, so you'll likely do that again in the future. That usually works, right? But the moment you follow a rule and do something like this, everything changes. You get into contingency-shaped, right? So for example, I might have a rule that says for cutting the first pass, you use wool pads, right? But for buffing, you use foam pads. So what kind of foam pads? Well, it depends on what kind of buffing you're doing, right? So no product placements here, don't worry. The idea being that the rule, the rule-following behavior is use wool for cut and then use foam for finish, right? So that's the rule. But the basic idea to go from rule-following to contingency-shaped is to do something. So what are some of those things that you worry about? Or what are those things that I mean that actually create the contingencies? They're right here. When you're doing cutting and buffing, I mean, this isn't a really sharp body line. You can see it right here, right? So there's the body line there, and there's another one up here. Well, if you overheat the paint, guess what happens? You burn through it. Well, that's not a good thing to do on a brand new paint job, is it? So you don't want to burn through your material. Well, you have to learn that feel. You have to learn when it's just getting too hot or when it's just getting too dry, right? So you don't want to do any dry buffing. It's always wet. So you want to... So there's the rule-following again, right? Make sure you wet buff or a wet cut. Never get it dry, right? Well, then you feel that once you get into the contingencies. And when you run into a punisher, man, on a car, it's expensive. You know, it could be thousands of dollars of a punisher there, right? Simply because you have to redo a whole section of paint. Tape off the lights. Why? Because have you ever tried to get that junk out of the grooves in your car? Man, it's awful. So through contingency shaping, I learned to put the tape on there. Why? Because all you have to do is pull the tape and it's clean. All right. So one of the other things that kind of started out as rule-following is these little guys. So my beautiful camera person here in my life is hiding on behind. She's probably going to run into one of those that she pans across. So oh, these little wonderful strings hanging, right? So someone once told me, hey, man, when you hang your parts for paint and you need to make sure that they're like out of the way and nothing touches them, you know? So I paint little things like this for my kid's car and all sorts of little goofy things. So how do you paint that? Right? You got to set it on something. You got to do something with it with a string, right? So you hang this thing up. So my buddy Jason taught me to hang stuff. Right? Why? Because it makes it easier. He said it first. There's the kids. He said it first and then I tried it now. I understand. So I went from a rule, switched into contingency following, and the cool thing is that rule-following behavior got reinforced. Why? Because the contingencies shaped me, right? Because I followed Jason's rules and it worked and it totally made me want to follow Jason's rules again in the future. And as a result, I do a lot of my body work and car work similar to how he does because, hey, I trust him. His rules worked when I tried them. So again, strengthens rule-following behavior. It also strengthens it specifically to one person or person. I mean, it does generalize, but it can often tie in with one person. So that's what these things are for. You could also think of it as generalization, but that's not really our topic today. But generalization, you know, I mean, this is just a string. You're using it to hang for paint and anything. So you get the idea. 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