Most training of horses uses what animal behaviorists call negative reinforcement, which means that the reward is the removal of an unpleasant stimulus. For example, to get the horse to move forward, the rider squeezes with his or her legs; once the horse moves forward the rider stops squeezing, this way rewarding the horse by removing the stimulus. ...
Watson directed numerous sorts of research and experiments on animal behavior, raising children, and advertising. ... Problem children are the results of anomalous relationships in the home, parental neglect and bad example. ... Parents, therefore, should be godly examples, grave shapers of children's characters, and kind and giving supporters of their youngsters. ... It creates the impression that the guardians could serve as the discriminative stimulus (SD) in the operant standard. ... For example, a child is sitting on his dad's lap and glancing at a book. ...
For example a student is never allowed to let his belt touch the floor. ... In the Kojasho school of karate each student identifies himself with one of the eighteen animals of lohan. ... Because of this he took windy days as a good omen because it was the element that corresponded with dragon, which is the animal that he beileves that he fights most like. ... Dorian would never try to show emotion right up till he began his first attack in a match and then he would "try to overload the enemy with stimulus" but immediately after it was over his face "would become like stone". ...
Jack London (John Griffith) (1876-1916) Prolific American novelist and short story writer, whose works deal romantically the overwhelming power of nature and the struggle for survival. London's identification with the wilderness makes him the antecedent of the Green movement. His left-wing philosophy is seen in the class struggle novel THE IRON HEEL (1908). JOHN BARLEYCORN, which describes the London's drinking bouts, connects him with such authors as Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac. On the other hand, London's views about the superiority of white people and that only the ...
