Jurgis Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Training pigeon to receive reward by not pecking on the light: I've been told that in experiment with US university students about 2/3 could not (would not?) learn the pattern "if you don't do anything, you get reward". I don't have reference to the experiment unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boilermaker75 Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Training pigeon to receive reward by not pecking on the light: I've been told that in experiment with US university students about 2/3 could not (would not?) learn the pattern "if you don't do anything, you get reward". I don't have reference to the experiment unfortunately. There is the Marshmallow Experiment, you don't eat one then later you get two, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgis Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Training pigeon to receive reward by not pecking on the light: I've been told that in experiment with US university students about 2/3 could not (would not?) learn the pattern "if you don't do anything, you get reward". I don't have reference to the experiment unfortunately. There is the Marshmallow Experiment, you don't eat one then later you get two, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment Yeah, I know the Marshmallow Experiment. The one I refer to was something different and pretty recent AFAIK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merkhet Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Are you talking about the experiment where students were willing to shock themselves rather than sit quietly with their own thoughts and do nothing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgis Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Are you talking about the experiment where students were willing to shock themselves rather than sit quietly with their own thoughts and do nothing? I don't believe that's the one. :/ Shoulda asked for reference. The one you mention is also interesting. 8) Pointers to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merkhet Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Are you talking about the experiment where students were willing to shock themselves rather than sit quietly with their own thoughts and do nothing? I don't believe that's the one. :/ Shoulda asked for reference. The one you mention is also interesting. 8) Pointers to it? http://time.com/2950919/alone-with-thoughts/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgis Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 http://time.com/2950919/alone-with-thoughts/ Thanks. I think. 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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