 All right, more on the behavior beast stuff here folks, you know, I Get a little torqued every now and again and one of the things I get torqued about is Ah psychology in general, all right, I don't mean to pick up my colleagues my friends all the people that are just normal everyday Psychologist, I don't have a problem with them on a personal level, but on a hype not on a hypothetical On a pragmatic and scientific level. Yeah, I got an issue. Why because I don't find Psychology to be as scientific as what it could be And I'm biased all right, and I know that I'm drastically biased because I'm a favor analyst All right I see as we've talked about before I see the value in Studying things from an empirical perspective, right and then applying what we've learned in the laboratory To everyday real-world problems apply behavior analysis. Okay, so what's the utility of it, right? That's always the big question. What you could do with it Well, because we are so freaking scientific and because we have followed the scientific method to a T I mean, I don't mean just a little bit I mean folks you realize that what I've been talking to you about is that we're not a soft science We're a natural science like physics biology so-and-so forth. Why it's really cool It's really simple. Why because we study behavior for behavior's sake We don't seek to explain behavior at a different level You don't appeal to some hypothetical damn construct to explain what you're doing. It doesn't do any good Right, so we look at for functional relations in the real world and because of that because of that natural scientific approach What we ended up with was a science that is uniquely used For modifying our world in ways that make it better for ourselves, right? You could even talk about self-management here, right? But my point is is that naming another part of psychology that does that I know we all talk about it But when you get down to the core of it what you see is this appeal to something that might not even exist All right He's appealed to these hypotheticals and even turn reify those hypotheticals and make them move the river Move the river if you couldn't hear me whatever is it you do you do it's just god drives me nuts So when people go with the value of applied behavior analysis is it what you want to solve the problems in the world? Do you want to learn how to get off of just get off? I guess we could leave it there. No, do you want to learn how to get off of fossil fuels? Not a bad idea, huh? How about addressing things like reacting to climate change? Let's let's leave the whole part of that topic that is Argued alone and let's just talk about the fact that it is changing and how are we going to deal with that? How are we going to get people to modify their behavior to live in different zones? Maybe to sell their houses whatever they're going to have to do to survive. How about moving to Mars? That's a challenge. Maybe maybe the people that move to Mars want to know a little bit about how to function Maybe they want to know a little bit about behavior and how to select for the responses that you want In the individuals that you're working with or oh my gosh, how about just society as a whole? All right, I'm going to direct you to Anthony Biglin right now I want you to go read all his stuff all of it starting with the nurture effect read the book All right, and no it's not I suppose the bit of a shameless plug, but he doesn't know I'm doing it He didn't ask for it. I'm just telling you to read the darn book All right, why because you'll understand the value of behavior analysis when you do you'll understand what we can do with it You'll understand that it can change all sorts of stuff and because it's a natural science We actually have some real hard-nosed data to work with We're not making stuff up. It's not willy-nilly. We're not appealing to hypotheticals. We're gonna make change period We're gonna make change in people's lives and make the world a better place Any problem you want to apply to that that involves an action a behavior We're gonna tackle it so people go. What's the value everything? Everything's the value It applies to whatever you want it to apply to and that in itself is what makes it a unique feel Some myself included will argue that it shouldn't even be called psychology because it's not a soft science It's a hard science. It is a natural science It is different than the rest of the social sciences. It isn't a social science I shouldn't even lump it together shouldn't even be called psychology Radical behaviorism applied behavior analysis and experimental analysis of behavior when you start to understand all of them You'll understand the value. You'll understand what we can do with it and the power of the techniques is important. It's It's it's it's life-changing. It's world-changing. You can use the techniques and so can I that's why we're doing these videos That's why we made it all open source that get the knowledge where it belongs with the people that need it Simple see you later