System conditioning is temporal regulation, not behavioral reinforcement
Evidence
In the early 1990s, Robert Horner and George Sugai were educational psychologists at the University of Oregon. Horner had spent the previous decade working in applied behavior analysis for students with severe developmental disabilities — a population whose challenging behaviors had historically been managed through aversive interventions, including physical restraint. The research showed, consistently, that aversive approaches suppressed behavior in the immediate context but did not transfer, did not generalize, and frequently produced escalation over time. Teaching pro-social behaviors and restructuring environments to prevent behavioral cascades worked better. — , The Rod and the Child, 7424 (
#expands, via linked claim)
The control of time allows for the coordination of activity and, therefore, effective social control. In navigation, time was early fixed on English ships according to the clock of the Greenwich observatory; and no matter where a ship might be in the Atlantic, its chronometer always registered Greenwich time. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
The point was they had discovered shaping: a technique for instilling complex behaviors through simple rewards, namely by rewarding a series of successive approximations of that behavior. “This makes it possible,” Skinner wrote, “to shape an animal’s behavior almost as a sculptor shapes a lump of clay.” — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 660 (
#contradicts, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Aversive behavioral interventions suppress behavior locally but fail to transfer and cause escalation — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7424; Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848; Punishment peaks at the ages when prefrontal control is most absent — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5938 (+3 more)
Related
- Aversive behavioral interventions suppress behavior locally but fail to transfer and cause escalation (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Aversive behavioral interventions suppress behavior locally but fail to transfer and cause escalation
#expands(0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 7424 - Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control
#corroborates(0.55) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848 - Punishment peaks at the ages when prefrontal control is most absent
#qualifies(0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 5938 - Complex behavior emerges from rewarding successive small approximations
#contradicts(0.50) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 660