 Let's look at something called contingency-shaped behavior versus rule-governed behavior or rule-following behavior Some people like to joke around and call this a real behavior versus artificial behavior Now I say hogwash behavior is behavior. There may be different things that led to it, but it's always going to be Reinforced ultimately so contingency-shaped is behavior that happened through lack of a better term trial and error This is the stuff that got you Where you got punished and reinforced for doing particular things and you had no sort of clear indication about what to do Right. There was no clear rule. So you didn't follow any rules. You just got out there and tried it I've had this happen a couple of times in Woodward You know I learned woodworking from my uncle and he died when I was quite young But before that he taught me quite a few things But he also didn't teach me a lot of stuff Partially because I was just too young when he was teaching me these things and I didn't have the sort of dexterity to be handling A object that's sharper than a razor or working with a you know power tool that can you know Twist me across the room when I'm 10 years old, you know, so He didn't teach me some of these things. So when I got out and started doing woodworking I didn't really have a mentor, you know anymore and One of the things that I noticed was that I make a lot of mistakes a lot more than what the average Joe Does when they go through a woodworking class? I started thinking about it. I'm like, ah It's because it's contingency-shaped. It's because I'm having to learn to do this thing from scratch I don't have any rules to follow. I don't have any guidelines. I didn't buy any books You know, I'm stubborn so I could have went out there about books and done and learned a few things that way or If I would have been thinking I'd have gone on YouTube and typed in some of those that had typed in some of the Things that I was doing and picked up on some rules to kind of help bridge some of the gaps I didn't do that. Okay, so contingency-shaped is about Coming into contact with a particular contingency. So you want to learn how to use a router little thing spends about 15,000 rpm Got a nice sharp bit on the end of it. Well I'm laughing because even just the other day I was I had a contingency happen with the router Like I said, thanks spinning is a little blade. It's a little bit, right? It's spinning on the same like 15,000 rpm. That was the speed that I was running for this particular project And I went the wrong direction now. I'm not stupid. I've done this a thousand times But I went the wrong direction and when you go the wrong direction if you don't go against that rotation And then in other words if you go with the rotation then it tends to grab the wood and pull it and throw it across the shop Well the danger there is that when it throws it across the shop You're still trying to hold on to it so it pulls your fingers into that that bit Luckily it didn't pull my fingers into it But it yanked the wood out of my hands and threw it across the shop and broke the piece of wood Which was frustrating since I had to spend the next two hours Rebuilding that piece in order to get it back through the router again. So that's an example of contingency shape So with that particular piece, I'm definitely not going to do what's called climb milling All right, so certain times you do want to go with with that with the rotation But you have to be set up for that you got to be ready for it You got to know that it's going to try and pull it out of your hands and all those things So guess what I just did I set up a rule for you based on my experience I gave you a rule right so now you can go into the shop and you can try to router You can try to run the router and you probably do fine like ah go against the rotation Because Ryan had a piece of wood fly across the room and darn near ripped his fingers off Okay, so those are the types of things that That's an example of that contingency shape versus the rule governed I have now given you the rule based on my experience my experience was directly shaped And yours was rule following so when you get out there into the environment you follow our rules It will then be can start to become contingency shaped at that point that that that first instance though It's just rule following behavior So rule governed or rule following develops by direct contact with the contingency for following rules And eventually leads to the rule can take real contingencies like I was just talking about so eventually You know if you follow my rules you will come in contact with the router And then you will get reinforced for proper use of the router automatically simply because of the fact that You're using it and now the contingencies are kicking it in place This bridges certain gaps and that delayed reinforcement stuff because You know the potential for a lot of punishers are there the potential for the reinforcement is there But if without those rules you might not come into contact with that reinforcer right off the bat because you might make a Bunch of mistakes and the fear is that if you're gonna make a bunch of mistakes Then maybe the behavior isn't gonna last very long, and I know I've kind of put this in the context of Woodworking, but you could also think about this in the context of say learning a language I before he except after C and sometimes certain situations and other ones and blah blah blah because English just sucks, but You get the idea that there's that rule I before you accept after C For the most part But when you get out there and start running into the contingencies It'll then start to shape up the real response