while i’d love to read peoples reasonings for their answers, i’d ask that you don’t put your answer in the tags so that your followers aren’t influenced by your answer

i’ll try to edit this post with the answer shortly before the poll finishes so you can check when you get the poll complete notification!

reblogs appreciated! i want to get a feel for how people use/understand these terms

hello! I recently rescued a bird (~1 year old female budgie) who is very aggressive. I’ve worked with birds before snd never seen anything like this. She doesn’t seem to be displaying any sort of fear, just aggression. She will literally chase my hand back and forth when it’s outside the cage to try to bite it through the bars. Do you have any advice on how to remedy this? She is molting, which could be contributing, but I’ve honestly never seen anything like this.

first would be a vet check, severe aggression can arise if an animal is in pain, I'd want to rule that out first before all else.

Aggression is a symptom of something else, usually it's fear-based even if you aren't seeing typical fear body language. Lots of birds have their boundaries pushed for so long that they just stop presenting the warning cues since they never work to make people stop and that's where you'll get cases where the bird will just jump straight to aggression to get their desired result. You may also be seeing aggression because they're stressed out, territorial, hormonal, or a variety of other reasons.

While we can't always know why the behaviour is occurring we can work with what we see in the moment. You approach the cage, they present aggressive behaviour to make you leave.

The Antecedent is you approaching, the Behaviour is lunging, the Consequence is you back away.

You can arrange yourself to work under the bird's threshold and reshape the sequence. Find the distance away you can be that doesn't trigger aggression and reinforce that calmness with whatever they find reinforcing. This can mean approaching the cage, clicking for calm, and then walking away if you leaving is what they want.

Now the Antecedent is you approaching, the Behaviour is soft body language, and the Consequence is you leave. They still earn the goal they wanted without needing to aggress to do so, calm body language should become more frequent.

Over time you can work closer and closer until you're able to add your hands in to the equation and eventually be able to drop a treat in the cage and walk away and start making the switch from negative reinforcement (you walking away) to positive reinforcement (treats being given).

getting out

sometimes you just have to get out of the situation you’re mute in. yes, sm can make you mute around even kind, supportive people. but there are some situations where sm is triggered by people making you feel unsafe or unheard. in those cases, you just have to get out, rather than focusing on trying to ‘fix’ your sm. sm can be a defence mechanism; it can also be a wonderful canary in the a coal mine (meaning: warning sign) for things you may not know are making you anxious.

this is why reducing sm to ‘negative reinforcement’ is unhelpful. sometimes you don’t need to learn to speak to someone; you just need to get away from that person.

lots of people find their sm hugely improves when they get out of major mute situations. for example, leaving school, or moving to a new work, or leaving home. while that’s impossible for many, it’s important to recognise that sometimes the situation itself is the problem. that said, sm won’t magically go away once you leave those major situations behind. you still have it; it can still be triggered; there can be other situations - including ones that other ppl wouldn’t feel anxious in, because while it can be a defence mechanism, it’s still a disorder. 🌹🌹

* Negative for the second one is - doing something that’ll decrease behavior.(I ran out of room)

This is a poll to see how many people know about conditioning. I’m doing an intro to psychology class and thought this was interesting to see how many people know the right awnser

You Can Do R- Correctly

When you're all about R+ and tryna tell people about R+, you're often having to use examples of mistreatment of horses in order to get your point across.

Traditionally, horse people tend to use R- and THAT'S OK!

Most people who are into R+ grew up on R- and are well aware that you can do R- correctly to establish a relationship with their horse.

The difference is all dependent on where you are in your horse journey. This doesn't mean you'll eventually become R+ BUT most people who turned to R+ are those who maybe had a horse with a difficult problem that traditional training methods couldn't solve. So, instead of selling the horse to someone else or dumping them at the meat market for being "dangerous", they found a safe alternative.

Others may have observed the toxicity of dominance culture in the horse industry and wanted to get away from it because it didn't make any real sense (bonus points if you have some training in psychology).

Maybe they want the clearest forms of communication for their horse? Whatever it is, usually R+ people just want to have willing partners and are doing all the work to be friends with their horses.

When we bring up R-, it's not to say that working your horse on a pressure/release system is bad. However, the mindset that can slip in whilst using these practices are what we are trying to diminish. Dominance theory, anthropomorphizing them, making excuses to be able to hit them cuz "they're bigger" (reread that one), scare tactics in the name of desensitization, how much more can I go on?

With R+ there is virtually no way you can mistreat the horse because the principles are founded upon willingness, what horses deem as fun/ good tradeoff, and animal welfare.

I truly encourage everyone to just look into R+ principles. You will find yourself in a wormhole of fabulous information on how to help your horse be a horse and a willing partner without the anxiety and fear. You don't have to be an R+ person in the end BUT knowing how horses learn, how to correctly read their body language whilst checking your own will make you a better horse person overall

'I would rather look like you than like me,' said Fergus, voicing a long-time conviction of physical inferiority which his father and the school authorities had confirmed.

L.P. Hartley, from The Harness Room

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i think i might be getting negatively attached to a friend. we’ve been acquaintances for a long time but getting closer lately and i think she’s cool but i’m getting a lot of alternating positive and negative reinforcement and it’s starting to effect me and i’m a little worried because this is how all of my past relationships have gone and it was not good for me. but at least i’m aware of it as it’s happening this time. but i don’t know what to do. so. help.

OOPS! for a moment, i almost thought that what I said mattered!

Jack (Mass Effect): negative reinforcement

Krieg (Borderlands): positive reinforcement

same result - murder folks to death and smile about it.

but, is Krieg happier than Jack? why or why not? discuss.

psychology fact 7

a negative reinforcement is when an already present stimulus ends because of a response, which leads to an increase in the target behavior ex: a kid's toy is making a loud noise, the parent takes the toy away, quietness increases

a punishment is when a stimulus is presented following a response, which leads to a decrease in responding ex: kid makes a loud noise, parent makes a louder noise, kid makes less noise

“Me hating men isn’t radfem behavior! TERFs don’t even actually hate men, they just hate trans women.” Radfems would beg to fucking differ!! They most certainly hate men, and they will tell you so with pride. Have you ever actually heard from a radfem? They think all men are inherently predatory and dangerous and should be kept as far away from women as humanly possible if not outright be killed. Yes, they hate trans women the most—because they conceptualize them as men mocking and harming “real” women. That doesn’t mean they aren’t also misogynistic towards trans women; they are. That also doesn’t mean they don’t team up with cis men against trans people sometimes; they do. But if you look into it literally at all you will immediately see that radical feminist ideology hinges on blaming not just the structure of patriarchy but individual men for the oppression of women. If coming to terms with that makes you uncomfortable, sit with that for a while and figure out just how comfortable you are with bio- and gender-essentialism.

Basically I think that if you're going to insist on the importance of direct and honest communication, you have to not punish the behavior you want to see. You can't go around saying "Don't expect your family/friends/partner/etc to be a mind reader! If you have an issue, you need to communicate it!" while also repeatedly dismissing/belittling/ignoring people who do that, and then act as if someone is dishonest/manipulative/cowardly/bad at expressing themselves when they stop directly telling you what they're thinking or feeling. You're the asshole here, bro.