Behavior Analysis in the Wild

The principles of behavior are everywhere - let's spot them!

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Portlandia: Dave & Kath realize that #prompting, #modeling, & #feedback are not the best procedures to teach sleeping 😴🛌

https://t.co/oN4nedZmLE

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #teaching #behavioralskillstraining

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Arrival (2016): Louise engages in functional analysis of human and alien #verbalbehavior to ensure effective translation & communication 👽🛸

https://t.co/kFo7yUISi2

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #functionalanalysis #language #mandforinformation

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@alpha_ionone Definitely a wild show. A great episode to watch is S3E4 (Remedial Chaos Theory) 💯

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Community (NBC): Jeff's hand gesture that functions to silence the study group is reinforced, but later there's an #extinctionburst when it fails

https://t.co/22k9QZMVUV (#reinforcement)
https://t.co/mQ6nCMLo0R (#extinction burst)

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #learning

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Rick and Morty: "We may have been correlating some things" - A cult based on the feedback of planet-sized heads realizes their behavior was #superstitious since the feedback was for others on Earth

https://t.co/vg8jTCXFhD
https://t.co/TNk0ylmvNc

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWIld

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Harry Potter 5: "We're not gonna use magic?" "You'll be learning about spells..." - Students prefer learning BY doing instead of learning about doing (#knowinghow 🪄 vs. #knowingthat 📚)

https://t.co/nFq3jb8I46

#BehaviorTwiter #BAintheWild #behaviorism #learning #knowledge

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Stan (@Eminem, 2000): "Dear Slim, I wrote you but you still ain't callin'..." - Sad song about about #extinction and its side effects for an obsessive fan

https://t.co/s1DmYPMXNH

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #SBLVI #PepsiHalftime

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Young Frankenstein (1974): Dr. Frankenstein lectures on voluntary vs. reflexive impulses, also demonstrating #operant vs. #respondent behavior in a rather crude way

https://t.co/ZozGyHl7v5

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #neuroscience

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@KatietheSchlarb Dwight was clearly not the best coworker😬

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The Office: Dwight's #punishment-based "doomsday device" (with no #reinforcement) is ineffective, and mostly frustrates & frightens employees

https://t.co/0yM0PHCKqu

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #stafftraining

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Stokes & Baer (1977): "Thus, if contingencies of reinforcement or punishment...are made indiscriminable, then generalization may well be observed."

https://t.co/hrpVOXOAk4

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The Wire (HBO): "One of them is leaking!" - Mayor Carcetti promotes #generalization of work across Baltimore by using indiscriminable #contingencies (not specifying locations)

https://t.co/IWssxE8TUm (nsfw, cursing)

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #stimuluscontrol

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Big Bang Theory: Sheldon explains his Kardashian #tact discrimination strategy after him and Penny play a #DTT-style game

https://t.co/58qcA0EYEO

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #discrimination #stimuluscontrol
(Credit: @davidraymiranda)

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Squid Game: When players are "eliminated" the cash prize increases, setting up an unfortunate #reinforcement contingency for the debt-ridden players to "eliminate" others... 🚦☠️

https://t.co/dciDDR8GtU

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #contingencies

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The Office: "Now, it's my favorite song" - Closing Time is conditioned as a #reinforcer for Stanley due to history of #pairing & signaling the end of the workday

https://t.co/Jw6FfSMwHD

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #learning #reinforcement #stimuluscontrol

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Viral Tweet: Estonian delivery robot emits successful #mand to be released from snow blockage ❄️🤖🇪🇪

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #verbalbehavior
(Credit: @behavior_psych)

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Modern times in Estonia. A robot which had become stuck in the snow, saw me coming, and asked with a synthesised voice whether I could help out. So I did, and both of us carried on with our day.

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Avengers 2: "Why do I even talk to you guys, everywhere else that story kills!" - Rhodey learns #audiencecontrol discrimination when his joke contacts #extinction w. Tony & Thor, but #reinforcement with others.

https://t.co/bgtS0nhwyc

#BehaviorTwitter #BAintheWild #learning

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Will adjust going forward and no longer hashtag ABA unless it is directly relevant to tweet

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ABA was originally hashtagged on every tweet to reach a larger audience on this new account related to the science & principles of behavior. That was a mistake for at least a couple of reasons:

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(2) Many view the term “ABA” only as autism-specific, and this can make its use misleading when used in a broader sense not specifically related to autism as this account has done

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