So take your hands out of your pockets, get your face adjusted

[johnnygoodtimes]

Bleeerg. I feel like shit. I fell alseep early last night, in my clothes and everything, and managed to not look at my clock again until five a.m. At which point I got myself up even though I was still tired, and I'm still tired now, and I don't really feel much of anything except oncoming depression and crappiness

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[johnnygoodtimes]

I know Skinner's "Aircrib" wasn't the same as his rat-testing Skinner box (now I know, anyway). Yesterday I was talking to my psych. teacher and, since we had just covered behaviorism and learning, asked her if there was psychologist who raised his kid in box. My mom, who got her BA in psych. about ten years ago, told me this but I wasn't sure how much there was to it, but my teacher had never heard of such a thing. So my mom pulled the Skinner excerpt from her psychology book, and basically all it said was Skinner made a "baby-tender," raised his daughter in it, some critics say it made her neurotic but Skinner always denied that.

That didn't tell me much so I went to find pictures of the "baby-tender," and in doing so found out what it really was and how Skinner's daughter really is today. What happened was people conflated his operational conditioning "Skinner box" with the "baby tender" and the misconception was passed on, even to my mom in her psychology program and then to me. So while emailing the teacher with the textbook quote I found all the other info. and crib pictures and sent them as well. Misconception eliminated, whoo.

(Haha I hope this wasn't tl;dr.)

[kahlan_amnell]

Ah, ok. Glad that the misconception was eliminated. There are a lot of misconceptions about famous psychologists of the past.

(Nope, not tl;dr.)