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Conditioning Terms

I'm making this because I've seen several people (non-targeted) get these confused. I think the most common mistakes I've seen are people bringing up Pavlov's dogs as an example for operant conditioning, and saying "negative reinforcement" when they really mean punishment. This is in no way meant as a criticism, just as a resource! I'm no expert but I took a couple psychology electives so I have a grasp of the basics.

Classical conditioning (a.k.a. Pavlovian conditioning)

Classical conditioning repeatedly pairs one stimulus with another to form an association between them. It results in an autonomic response (such as salivation or increased heart rate).

Classic example: Pavlov's dogs. A bell was rung every time they were fed, and the dogs learned to associate the sound of the bell with food. Eventually they salivated at the sound of the bell even when no food was presented to them.

Vocab:*

Unconditioned Stimulus: The stimulus that automatically produces a response without conditioning Neutral Stimulus: A stimulus that produces no response without conditioning. Conditioned Stimulus: The stimulus that produces a new response after conditioning. Unconditioned Response: The automatic response to the unconditioned stimulus Conditioned Response: The automatic response to the conditioned stimulus

Operant Conditioning (a.k.a. instrumental conditioning)

This is the one people more often mean when they talk about conditioning. Operant conditioning pairs a stimulus with a behavior to modify behavior. It results in a conscious/voluntary response (such as performing an action).

Classic example: Skinner box. A rat was placed in a chamber with a lever. When the rat pressed the lever, it could receive food or avoid a shock, leading to the rat to press the lever more often.

Vocab:*

Consequence: Anything that happens as a result of a behavior. Positive: (Doesn't mean good!) A stimulus is added. Negative: (Doesn't mean bad!) A stimulus is removed. Reinforcement: Anything that leads to the behavior increasing Punishment: Anything that leads to a behavior decreasing

So these can be combined to form four categories of consequence:

Positive reinforcement: Something is added to increase/encourage the behavior displayed Negative reinforcement: Something is removed to increase/ encourage the behavior displayed. Positive punishment: Something is added to decrease/discourage the behavior displayed Negative punishment: Something is removed to decrease/ discourage the behavior displayed.

*These are the meanings in behaviorism specifically. Other meanings for these words can be correct in other contexts.

Some Whumpy Examples :)

Classical/Pavlovian conditioning: Whumpee comes to associate Whumper with pain, and their heart rate increases when they see or hear Whumper.

Positive Reinforcement: Whumpee is given food when they behave.

Negative Reinforcement: Whumpee's restraints are removed when they behave.

Positive Punishment: Whumpee is beaten when they misbehave.

Negative Punishment: Whumper takes away a comfort such as a blanket when Whumpee misbehaves.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk and have fun conditioning your Whumpees :)

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whumpitywhumpwhump · 2 days

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I appreciate it's pretty late in the game to be releasing prompts, but I was waiting to see whether the official page was going to post anything before deciding to start mine. Hopefully a few of you would like to get involved (even if it is short notice lol)

TW: MEDWHUMP/MEDICAL LANGUAGE

Hi everyone! @whumpetywhumpwhump here- I noticed there doesn't seem to be an official Medwhump May running this year, so I'm running one myself :)

RULES!

No AI-generated content

Please tag this account if you post your challenge submissions on Tumblr and use the tag 'medwhump may' (as in the tags of this post)

For completionists, all 31 days must be completed (using either the daily prompt or an alt prompt)

Have fun!

I will update these rules if necessary! Happy whumping!

Please reblog this to get the word out :)

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whumpitywhumpwhump · 2 days

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Presumed Dead

This might be a niche interest but personally I love when a kidnapped character has been mia for months, maybe even a few years, to the point when everyone else in their life has basically run out of gas trying to find them. They've tried everything. No leads. The authorities have stopped searching, everyone has called it quits. They've all mourned and grieved and cried, but basically they've all started trying to pick up the pieces and move on with their lives.

Only for the bad guy who captured the kidnapped character to whip them out as the ace up their sleeve in a negotiation when their own back is up against the wall. And not even prefacing it with a "Would you like your friend back?" or a "What would you do if I told you X was still alive?" Just showing up to the negotiation with X in tow, bound and gagged and in what is clearly an agonizing amount of pain, but somehow they're still breathing, after all this time...

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whumpitywhumpwhump · 3 days

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Broken bones, like a clavicle or scapula, that can't really be splinted or immobilised beyond securing the affected limb in a sling and being very cautious not to move or jar the shoulder of the injured side; no rigid security of an encasing cast or splint like that for a broken wrist- the shoulder-blade or collarbone are reliant on the surrounding bodily structures to guard and support them throughout the gradually-healing pain of being fractured and the injured character moves with the utmost gingerness in the interim.

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Being knocked out for more than 5 minutes means very serious brain damage but humans not having a turn-off button would do immense damage to our collective storytelling. So many films and books and videogames just wouldn't happen if writers stopped bonking their characters on the head. Insane.

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whumpitywhumpwhump · 4 days

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Yay, unsolicited advice time! Or, not really advice, more like miscellaneous tips and tricks, because if there's one thing eight years of martial arts has equipped me to write, it's fight scenes.

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Fun things to add to a fight scene (hand to hand edition)

It's not uncommon for two people to kick at the same time and smack their shins together, or for one person to block a kick with their shin. This is called a shin lock and it HURTS like a BITCH. You can be limping for the rest of the fight if you do it hard enough.

If your character is mean and short, they can block kicks with the tip of their elbow, which hurts the other guy a lot more and them a lot less

Headbutts are a quick way to give yourself a concussion

If a character has had many concussions, they will be easier to knock out. This is called glass jaw.

Bad places to get hit that aren't the groin: solar plexus, liver, back of the head, side of the thigh (a lot of leg kicks aim for this because if it connects, your opponent will be limping)

Give your character a fighting style. It helps establish their personality and physicality. Are they a grappler? Do they prefer kicks or fighting up close? How well trained are they?

Your scalp bleeds a lot and this can get in your eyes, blinding you

If you get hit in the nose, your eyes water

Adrenaline's a hell of a drug. Most of the time, you're not going to know how badly you've been hurt until after the fact

Even with good technique, it's really easy to break toes and fingers

Blocking hurts, dodging doesn't

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Just thought these might be useful! If you want a more comprehensive guide or a weapons edition, feel free to ask. If you want, write how your characters fight in the comments!

Have a bitchin day <3

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whumpitywhumpwhump · 4 days

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Woahhh

(From the dropout discord- next FHJY episode is gonna be LONG!)

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whumpitywhumpwhump · 4 days

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no but if sandralynn dated bobby dawn her taste in men is hysterical cause so far her known dating history is -cleric of sol -literal devil -werewolf with a wild past turned kindly school counselor -gilear

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whumpitywhumpwhump · 5 days

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Forcibly kissing whumpee with a broken jaw

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whumpitywhumpwhump · 5 days

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Jason and Dick look so much alike during their Robin days that they get confused who was the Robin in certain photos, they literally can't tell each other apart and the fact they have been fighting almost the same lineup of rogues is even more confusing, so their experiences end up mixed up, a lot.

Jason: No, that was me, did ya' read my reports and is confusing them with the real thing ?

Dick: I'm one hundred percent sure that was me, maybe you're the one who is misremembering, you used to read my reports all the time !

Jason: So you're just gonna act like I'm fucking lying, I have 4k memory of that day, that was literally me get outta here with ur Pinocchio looking ass

Dick: You're the one remembering things wrong, I got seventeen years of career I know that was me!

The whole time, the Riddler was running low on funds and used the same strategy twice, hoping nobody would notice, Tim knows the truth – he has read both reports–, but he thinks it's funny to see them argue.

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Headcanon where after so many arguments between the batkids and Bruce over his paranoia and complete disregard for his kids privacy, the entire family had compromised with (in the healthiest way possible) downloading life360 on their phones and that's how they all keep track of each other.

Now Bruce knew that this is mostly for his benefit and is supposed to be a healthy alternative for his unhealthy paranoia and helicopter parenting, but what he wasn't expecting was for his kids to start keeping track of him.

He's putting gas in his car and Dick calls him because apparently Dick has been watching him drive around on the app? And Bruce is currently at a gas station thats right around the corner from a Taco Bell and now Dick wants him to get food for everyone since he's already there.

He's driving home from a meeting and Steph calls him because her and Duke were shopping in the area and wants to know if he can pick them up, when he asks how she knew he was on the same street, he gets a "Oh I just like to stalk everyone on the app for funsies." as an answer.

Jason calls him and he can barely get out a hello before Jason cuts him off, "Bruce why the fuck is your phone battery on 5%, charge your damn phone" which completely stuns him because why does he know that. He clears his throat before answering. "Jason, what?"

"Everyone can see each others phone batteries on '360, now charge your phone." Is all he gets before Jason hangs up on him.

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whumpitywhumpwhump · 5 days

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nothing can break the bond between a middle aged white woman and her wall full of kitschy quotes

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whumpitywhumpwhump · 5 days

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I heard reference to something about how all anime are required to have good looking cabbage because of That One Time. So simply looking up "anime cabbage" I found the source.

Some harem anime way back in the day had an episode where the characters cooked, and they animated cabbage so terribly like this it left a bad mark on the anime community forever. Apparently this is part of the reason why all food usually looks good in anime, even moreso than the regular show sometimes. With cabbage being especially well drawn.

A complaint, apparently in a paper.

The first show when released internationally was reanimated in this part.

And high quality or low quality cabbage is sometimes referenced.

I learned of this because the most recent Hologra episode has noel eating cabbage, tearing apart a fine quality cabbage into two low poly halves.

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Listening to a non-fiction book about maritime disaster and the way this author is describing the ship sinking is so sexual

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whumpitywhumpwhump · 5 days

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"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

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