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08-11-2006, 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by dj_venom  You can try (and I have no idea on the scientific term for this, I'm positive there is one), pain-treatment, where you hurt yourself everytime you say it. Or the classic thing of the 'swearjar' (though it doesn't really work if you get all the money in there). | It's simply called "punishment". In operant learning, there are four basic types of consequences of a behaviour:
Positive Reinforcement: The more often the subject performs the action, the more the stimulus is reinforced (for example, pressing a lever for food)
Negative Reinforcement: Performing an action removes an undesirable stimulus (for example, studying for an exam removes anxiety)
Punishment: Performing an action elicits an undesirable stimulus (for example, receiving a shock by pressing a lever)
Omission Training (sometimes called Extinction): Performing an action prevents the delivery of a pleasant stimulus (for example, disciplining a child by sending him to his room)
I don't think punishment is the answer to (old)Mandalore's problem though, since that would require him to identify each time he says "peep". I am quite sure he can't identify every time he uses the word since that kind of habits are often highly automatised so you don't notice exactly every time you say it.
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