Rubber band on wrist?

[Ns1]

heroin addicts

 

[comradeflynn]

this compulsion conditioning interests me


So humans can really be conditioned like dogs?

 

[Rogue]

I do it when I want to pull my arm hair and piss myself off.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: comradeflynn
this compulsion conditioning interests me


So humans can really be conditioned like dogs?

Sure, happens every day. The best example I can think of (for this crowd) is typing on a keyboard. Learning where the keys are to the point where you don't have to think about it is a form of conditioning.

Other good examples are childhood fears resulting from traumatic incidents and foods you dislike that started from childhood. Example: I don't like milk. This is because I was allergic to it as an infant. Try as I might, I can't enjoy a good glass of milk to this day.

Chocolate milk is another story though.

 

[comradeflynn]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: comradeflynn
this compulsion conditioning interests me


So humans can really be conditioned like dogs?

Sure, happens every day. The best example I can think of (for this crowd) is typing on a keyboard. Learning where the keys are to the point where you don't have to think about it is a form of conditioning.

Other good examples are childhood fears resulting from traumatic incidents and foods you dislike that started from childhood. Example: I don't like milk. This is because I was allergic to it as an infant. Try as I might, I can't enjoy a good glass of milk to this day.

Chocolate milk is another story though.

you're wrong

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: tranceport
Stands for I might need this rubber band later. I'll wear it on my wrist?

Quoted for LOGIC

Edit: To build upon this, I put rubber bands on my wrist when I am going somewhere that I will be using 4-5 rubber bands. It is easier to pull 1 off your wrist than it is to pull 1 out of a tangled mess in your pocket. Usually when I am bundling up some Cat5 cables.

 

[fs5]

basketball players wear it
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3687349341

 

[So]

<pulls out ginormous office rubber band and plays with it>

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: PHiuR
sex offenders snap the rubberbands on their arms when they get desires to do stuff thats not right...im serious.

Wouldn't be effective if the rubber band was wrapped around their testicles?





Sysadmin

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: comradeflynn

Originally posted by: yukichigai
Sure, happens every day. The best example I can think of (for this crowd) is typing on a keyboard. Learning where the keys are to the point where you don't have to think about it is a form of conditioning.

Other good examples are childhood fears resulting from traumatic incidents and foods you dislike that started from childhood. Example: I don't like milk. This is because I was allergic to it as an infant. Try as I might, I can't enjoy a good glass of milk to this day.

Chocolate milk is another story though.

you're wrong

Wow, outstanding reasoning there. I must be wrong because you said so. Your 13 posts should put any fears I have of you being a re-re to rest. Bravo. *claps sarcastically*

 

[comradeflynn]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: comradeflynn

Originally posted by: yukichigai
Sure, happens every day. The best example I can think of (for this crowd) is typing on a keyboard. Learning where the keys are to the point where you don't have to think about it is a form of conditioning.

Other good examples are childhood fears resulting from traumatic incidents and foods you dislike that started from childhood. Example: I don't like milk. This is because I was allergic to it as an infant. Try as I might, I can't enjoy a good glass of milk to this day.

Chocolate milk is another story though.

you're wrong

Wow, outstanding reasoning there. I must be wrong because you said so. Your 13 posts should put any fears I have of you being a re-re to rest. Bravo. *claps sarcastically*

I'm glad you can admit I'm right

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: comradeflynn

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: comradeflynn

Originally posted by: yukichigai
Sure, happens every day. The best example I can think of (for this crowd) is typing on a keyboard. Learning where the keys are to the point where you don't have to think about it is a form of conditioning.

Other good examples are childhood fears resulting from traumatic incidents and foods you dislike that started from childhood. Example: I don't like milk. This is because I was allergic to it as an infant. Try as I might, I can't enjoy a good glass of milk to this day.

Chocolate milk is another story though.

you're wrong

Wow, outstanding reasoning there. I must be wrong because you said so. Your 13 posts should put any fears I have of you being a re-re to rest. Bravo. *claps sarcastically*

I'm glad you can admit I'm right

Who were you before you were banned?

Anyway, lots of people do this to break habits. On "Great American Smoke Out" day, they used to hand out elastic bands with instructions to snap your wrist everytime you get the urge to light up.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: Jzero
Anyway, lots of people do this to break habits. On "Great American Smoke Out" day, they used to hand out elastic bands with instructions to snap your wrist everytime you get the urge to light up.

Man, that must have sounded weird all day.

 

[Trey22]

WTFRUBBERBAND!

Couldn't help it.

 

[EngenZerO]

reminder

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: yukichigai
My friend went to elementary school with a girl who had some kind of manic disorder, who kept a rubber band on her wrist all day. Sometimes she'd get excited, or giggle, or something and she would just keep doing it. Then she'd snap the rubber band against her skin and she'd stop.

That's probably not why everyone's wearing them though.

yeah, its a common behavioral tool. Used to quit habits or thinking patterns.

Once the person realizes they are biting their nails or what not they snap the rubber band on their wrist. amazing simple and amazingly effective.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: yukichigai
My friend went to elementary school with a girl who had some kind of manic disorder, who kept a rubber band on her wrist all day. Sometimes she'd get excited, or giggle, or something and she would just keep doing it. Then she'd snap the rubber band against her skin and she'd stop.

That's probably not why everyone's wearing them though.

yeah, its a common behavioral tool. Used to quit habits or thinking patterns.

Once the person realizes they are biting their nails or what not they snap the rubber band on their wrist. amazing simple and amazingly effective.

The difference here is that it was as though she needed to snap the rubber band to stop. She didn't stop and snap it, she snapped it and then stopped.

But yes, you're probably right.

 

[homestarmy]

Originally posted by: tranceport
Stands for I might need this rubber band later. I'll wear it on my wrist?

bingo

 

[comradeflynn]

people aren't dogs

 

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: ghostman
Was it yellow?

http://www.nike.com/wearyellow/index_f.html

I wear one of those, as do a lot of my friends. We have a friend who found out he has stomach cancer, recently, and was given about 3-4 months.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: comradeflynn
people aren't dogs

Ice cream doesn't have teeth. Your point?

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: Jzero
Anyway, lots of people do this to break habits. On "Great American Smoke Out" day, they used to hand out elastic bands with instructions to snap your wrist everytime you get the urge to light up.

Man, that must have sounded weird all day.

It really ended up resulting in "snap fights" where people would try to snap each other's wrists when they weren't paying attention. Good times, good times.

 

[OrByte]

Originally posted by: MogulMonster

Originally posted by: ghostman
Was it yellow?

http://www.nike.com/wearyellow/index_f.html

I wear one of those, as do a lot of my friends. We have a friend who found out he has stomach cancer, recently, and was given about 3-4 months.

I started wearing one last week.

I am a cancer survivor, 4 years ago, testicular. LIVESTRONG seems like a great idea, I know that cancer was the LAST thing on my mind when I was young.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: yukichigai
My friend went to elementary school with a girl who had some kind of manic disorder, who kept a rubber band on her wrist all day. Sometimes she'd get excited, or giggle, or something and she would just keep doing it. Then she'd snap the rubber band against her skin and she'd stop.

That's probably not why everyone's wearing them though.

LOL.....

 

[Antoneo]

Originally posted by: comradeflynn

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: comradeflynn

Originally posted by: yukichigai
Sure, happens every day. The best example I can think of (for this crowd) is typing on a keyboard. Learning where the keys are to the point where you don't have to think about it is a form of conditioning.

Other good examples are childhood fears resulting from traumatic incidents and foods you dislike that started from childhood. Example: I don't like milk. This is because I was allergic to it as an infant. Try as I might, I can't enjoy a good glass of milk to this day.

Chocolate milk is another story though.

you're wrong

Wow, outstanding reasoning there. I must be wrong because you said so. Your 13 posts should put any fears I have of you being a re-re to rest. Bravo. *claps sarcastically*

I'm glad you can admit I'm right

yukichigai is right, what he is describing is operant conditioning in terms of learning (Thorndike). I believe the food/taste aversion is classical conditioning (Pavlov).