 All right, everybody, we had a specific request here at behavior based to talk about socially mediated reinforcement and I apologize if I'm damaging your name here, but I don't know if I said it right. I'm bad with names, but he requested that we do a little bit of a skit on or not a skit, but kind of a definitional video on socially mediated reinforcement. So the best that I can tell you is that I mean, you still have reinforcement, right? So we're going to focus on reinforcers. We're going to break this down into both types of reinforcement, both positive and negative reinforcement. And one of the things that we need to remember is the social piece. And now keep in mind that we are not talking about social reinforcers here. So hey, Brad, I would love it if you could come sit in the video and enjoy this, you know, the show. Oh, here it comes. So we got Brad, this is a rare occurrence of Brad on camera. Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that. So what I just did, I reinforced Brad's behavior, right? For coming over here and attending to the stimulus or attending to my request and following through the tasks. Well done. Good job. Thank you. So but he's, that was not socially mediated reinforcement. Even if I'm giving him attention saying, good job, Brad, I really appreciate you being here. I know it's wet and cold. My suit's sticking. Don't ask why my suit's sticking. Anyway, so if I, I didn't do social mediated reinforcement. I may be giving him some social reinforcers. Are you requesting to leave? Yeah. Can I go? Yeah, of course. Yeah, I gotta check on that. Okay. Excellent. All right. Thank you. That, ladies and gentlemen, was an example of socially mediated negative reinforcement. Why socially mediated? Brad requested from a social source, right? So another human. So he requested a reinforcer. The reinforcer that he requested was escaped. So negative reinforcement, he gets a little nervous on camera, so he needed to get out of it in the situation, right? So that was the socially mediated negative reinforcement. The key, folks, is on the mediation. Social reinforcement is all well and good. That's the interaction and the reinforcement delivered by social interaction, right? But social mediated is where a person is mediating the reinforcer. We also want to think about that there's a, if you really get down into it, there's a piece of the mediators, behaviors, part of the function, and it gets kind of messy. So I want to focus on the fact that they're requesting. Brad could have just as easily asked me for an M&M, okay? So instead of escaping, maybe Brad was more interested in eating M&Ms, which is just something important. As you become a better behavior analyst, you'll learn that you should always carry M&Ms in your pocket because it's just awesome to have people get out of your hand. So I don't know. I walk around with them always for random reasons. Ones that I probably won't say on camera, but no, I just got done with a health exam. I'm walking around with M&Ms all the time. Anyway, folks, socially mediated reinforcement. We're not going to go into the socially mediated punishers and all that fun stuff, but that just gets weird and naughty. But right now, I think that's a good enough, remember, social interaction between people and behavior, and then the mediation part is requesting something. Oh, oh no. Can I have another one? Of course you can. See? And socially mediated positive reinforcers. So there you go. So the prompts. So in this case, Brad did approach, and what was I reinforcing? Right? I wasn't necessarily reinforcing him coming over here. I was reinforcing him manding me, all right, for an M&M. So, or, oh, not going to eat that one. Oh, what the hell? It's not going to kill me. All right. So anyway, I was reinforcing him for manding me, for requesting. That was gross. So I just spit out half of my M&M because I was talking to him. Anyway, I'm reinforcing him for manding me for an M&M. So it was a type of social reinforcement as well. Even in this particular case, it was a verbal one. So it applies all across the show. It's a really, really useful technique to teach people. To say that it's okay to ask to be reinforced. My kiddos do it all the time. Can I earn a marble? Can I get a marble for that? What can I do to get a marble? All right. Get the idea. Socially mediated. They know they need something. They want to earn those reinforcers for whatever reason. And that's really all there's to it. Excuse me as I choke on M&M. I don't know if that's socially mediated. I suppose somebody will analyze my behavior. Tell me down here. It's more respondent. It is a bit respondent. All right, folks. Thank you very much. Socially mediated reinforcement. We'll come back for more later. Take care.