Well, That Was Really Spooky

All of which to say this is basically the science behind implicit bias. There are frames that we have built up for *every single stimulus* in our lives. It can just sit there latently, coloring our responses. Or it can be embedded within tapestries of rules, assumptions and worldviews.

usually with aversive stimuli). The liberal tradition is built in large part on epistemological clarity, specifically in human understandings of ourselves and our values. It almost seeks a state of thermostatic equilibrium in that egalitarianism seems to increase with entropy.

All of which to say this is basically the science behind implicit bias. There are frames that we have built up for *every single stimulus* in our lives. It can just sit there latently, coloring our responses. Or it can be embedded within tapestries of rules, assumptions and worldviews.

Well, I did a protest or whatever. Made a sign that said “research authoritarianism and vote” and laid next to it on the grass at a busy intersection for about an hour.

So... apparently Microsoft is no longer 'supporting' Office 2021, so what that means for my license is that it won't work with newer versions, which are all subscription based. The gravy train keeps a rollin'.

I talk about relational Frames a lot here, so figured I should review again. It's based on the concept of a verbal operant, and rooted in the 4 term contingency: Something in the environment triggers your response (accounting for your motivation, importantly) which then alters the environment,

Minorities are dangerous (function, causal). Capitalism is the best system, because it rewards winners and punishes losers (hierarchy, function, comparison, causal). Liberals want to destroy America (function, sameness, hierarchical). Western civilization is superior (hierarchy, deictic, causal).

I talk about relational Frames a lot here, so figured I should review again. It's based on the concept of a verbal operant, and rooted in the 4 term contingency: Something in the environment triggers your response (accounting for your motivation, importantly) which then alters the environment,

What this looks like, for actual people in society, is obviously complex. You can't possibly isolate all of the variables in an individual's daily life. But behaviorists have a pretty good track record of finding important observable measurable behaviors and then building our science on that.

I talk about relational Frames a lot here, so figured I should review again. It's based on the concept of a verbal operant, and rooted in the 4 term contingency: Something in the environment triggers your response (accounting for your motivation, importantly) which then alters the environment,

The relations (derived applicable relational responding!), could be reflexive, symmetric or transitive, and altered the relations of the other stimuli. For instance, there have been many frames studied: frames of function (what a stimulus does), its sameness, opposition, distinction, comparison,

I talk about relational Frames a lot here, so figured I should review again. It's based on the concept of a verbal operant, and rooted in the 4 term contingency: Something in the environment triggers your response (accounting for your motivation, importantly) which then alters the environment,

Which brings us to Relational Frame Theory. When researchers looked more closely at stimulus equivalence, and specifically generalization, they found subtle variables at work. The generalizations seemed to be arbitrarily applicable.

I talk about relational Frames a lot here, so figured I should review again. It's based on the concept of a verbal operant, and rooted in the 4 term contingency: Something in the environment triggers your response (accounting for your motivation, importantly) which then alters the environment,

Usually, it's reflexive or symmetrical. But sometimes transitive, where an untrained relation occurs.

I talk about relational Frames a lot here, so figured I should review again. It's based on the concept of a verbal operant, and rooted in the 4 term contingency: Something in the environment triggers your response (accounting for your motivation, importantly) which then alters the environment,

But behaviorists noticed something funny happens - generalization. Not only will their repertoire grow, but their ability to independently learn and generalize grows. This is partially accounted for by increased access to reinforcement by an expanded repertoire of verbal behavior,

I talk about relational Frames a lot here, so figured I should review again. It's based on the concept of a verbal operant, and rooted in the 4 term contingency: Something in the environment triggers your response (accounting for your motivation, importantly) which then alters the environment,

The verbal operant describes how verbal communities (e.g. a language or culture) reinforce communication for wants, for labeling things, for listening behavior, etc. After the response to the environment, the individual receives reinforcement (social, artificial, etc.).

I talk about relational Frames a lot here, so figured I should review again. It's based on the concept of a verbal operant, and rooted in the 4 term contingency: Something in the environment triggers your response (accounting for your motivation, importantly) which then alters the environment,

OK, this is super dorky, I feel like I'm having a bell hooks moment, but in discussing this subject you have to have some kind of heuristic. What does it mean to be a capitalist supremacist? What is a capitalist lol. My wife - an English professor - hates my liberal, imprecise use of language.