Habits Quote by Gregory Berns Download Open image ““Skinner box, a device that automatically trains rats or pigeons to learn behaviors.”” — Gregory Berns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Habits
It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar,… — Jess Lair Copy Share Image
If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“In 1963, Skinner’s Harvard colleagues Charles Catania and David Cutts put humans through the pigeon paces by instructing each of twenty-six undergraduate subjects to… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Skinnerian conditioning, crossed with social pressure, is now an ever-present invisible hand that tries to manipulate all of your actions on the internet. This… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Thought training and behavior shaping! These methods are not for the human realm! Ach, we’re not animal trainers!” “Yes,” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“When I took Psychology 101, the professor taught us about random reinforcement. Put three groups of rats in three separate cages, each equipped with… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats. — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs… — J. P. Guilford Copy Share Image
“Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Of all the chemical transmitter substances sloshing around in your brain, it appears that dopamine may be the most directly related to the neural… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“In answer to the question “What are dogs thinking?” the grand conclusion was this: they’re thinking about what we’re thinking.” — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“Interpreting dog behavior through the lens of wolf behavior is even worse than anthropomorphizing: it’s a human anthropomorphizing wolf behavior and using that flawed… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“Lorenz, however, believed that the ideal canine companion was a “resonance dog.” He noted the extraordinary parallelism in personality between many dogs and their… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“stress is lowest in the morning and rises steadily throughout the day. But the presence of dogs kept self-reported stress at their morning levels… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“The defining trait of dogs, therefore, is their interspecies social intelligence, an ability to intuit what humans and other animals are thinking. Wolves do… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“Do dogs have some concept of humans as something more than food dispensers? Simply knowing that human feelings toward dogs are reciprocated in some… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“We love dogs, but what do they think of us? Even with just two dogs, a picture was beginning to emerge. The pattern of… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“organ (VNO), thought to be specialized for detecting scents from other dogs and therefore to function in some capacity for social signaling” — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“Proof of social cognition means that dogs aren’t just Pavlovian learning machines. It means that dogs are sentient beings, and this has startling consequences… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
“Malchut is also the Alma D’Itgalya, “the Revealed World.” Here our latent potential is actualized through behavior and expression.” — Laibl Wolf Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When it comes to smarts, adolescents like Jesse have plenty. What they lack, however, are some of the brain-based skills that we all need… — Richard Guare Copy Share Image
“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
