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NonsequiturSushi23 karma

What is your background?

The kind of background that makes a product a pun on classical (Pavlovian) conditioning but a product based on operant (BF Skinner) conditioning.

NonsequiturSushi4 karma

Classical conditioning refers to pairing an unconditioned response with a conditioned stimulus. Like when Pavlov rang a bell (conditioned stimulus) to which his dogs would salivate (unconditioned response) because the bell preceeded feeding.

Operant conditioning is the other way around, where a behavior is changed through consequences. This is what you have set up. I do something bad and I get schocked.

The main point though, is that punishment is not the most effective way to change behavior, as said above.

Source: worked in a behavioral lab for 3 years.

Edit: spelling.