Fick mig att börja läsa om operant betingning och Ole Ivar Lovaas. Han använde sig av operant betingning för att " bota" människor med Autism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Ivar_LovaasIn an errorless discrete trial, the child sits at a table across from the therapist who provides an instruction (i.e., "do this", "look at me", "point to", etc.), followed by a prompt, then the child's response, and a stimulus reinforcer. The prompts are later discontinued once the child demonstrates proficiency. During this time, Lovaas and colleagues also employed physical aversives (punishment), such as electric shocks and slaps, to decrease aggressive and self-injurious behavior, as well as verbal reprimands if the child answered incorrectly or engaged in self-stimulatory behavior.
En annan sak som står på Wikipedia Om Ole Ivar Lovaas.. som är väldigt aktuellt idag.
Lovaas co-authored a study with George Rekers in 1974 where they attempted to modify the behavior of feminine male children through the use of rewards and punishment with the goal of preventing them from becoming homosexuals. The subject of the first of these studies, a young boy at the age of 4 at the inception of the experiment, died by suicide as an adult in 2010; his family attribute the suicide to this treatment
Man använder det fortfarande.
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