Flow vs. Behaviors
William Baum came up with a law of correlated behaviors back in 1973. He said forget about positive and negative reinforcement and just look at where the relative value is for the organism. The organism will always move towards the higher value (more pleasant)state (but the cost of doing so gets factored into the value). He said that behavior should be looked at as feedback cycles, not contiguous events. Hmmm. He said that behaviors transcend momentary analysis because of all the things that factor into them. Perhaps he is the guru of transcendental behaviorism?
I started thinking about flow recently because I heard Leslie Neuman talk on her video about watching water going out of a bathtub and thinking she would like to just live in the flow. Then grumpy ol' Dr. Deb berated me for using clicker training because it treats horse behaviors like behaviors (I think she meant instead of flow.)
Yep, but when you learn to dance, you have to focus on stepping right or left, forward or back. You have to break it down, get the pattern, then put it all back together again. Then it flows with precision.
Reference
WILLIAM M. BAUM, 1973,THE CORRELATION-BASED LAW OF EFFECT. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR 20: 137-153
I started thinking about flow recently because I heard Leslie Neuman talk on her video about watching water going out of a bathtub and thinking she would like to just live in the flow. Then grumpy ol' Dr. Deb berated me for using clicker training because it treats horse behaviors like behaviors (I think she meant instead of flow.)
Yep, but when you learn to dance, you have to focus on stepping right or left, forward or back. You have to break it down, get the pattern, then put it all back together again. Then it flows with precision.
Reference
WILLIAM M. BAUM, 1973,THE CORRELATION-BASED LAW OF EFFECT. JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR 20: 137-153
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