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To: neverdem
Nearly a year ago, New York made plans to ban the use of electric shocks as a punishment for bad behavior, a therapy used at a Massachusetts school where New York State had long sent some of its most challenging special education students.
I'd be very surprised if this therapy used electric shocks as punishment.

I'd be even more surprised if the author of the column understood the difference between positive punishment and negative reinforcement.

13 posted on 12/25/2007 11:18:51 PM PST by jdege
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To: jdege

“I’d be even more surprised if the author of the column understood the difference between positive punishment and negative reinforcement.”

Interesting thought. So, if the publisher stopped paying this guy for his work, which would that be?


14 posted on 12/26/2007 4:10:54 AM PST by Clioman
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