Episodes
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Positive Psychology - and the words "No" and "Stop"
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Spoke to teacher, she asked about positive psychology – not allowed to use the word no or stop – as they are negative.
First – words aren’t negative. They are just arbitrary sounds. How you respond can be positive, negative or neutral.
Second, if you positively reinforce a word – it becomes positive, not negative.
Third, Stop and No – should be used as deltas and positively reinforced when the child or person responds positively to it – that’s how you create a positive association with the word instead of a negative one.
Fourth – you may not be able to totally do this – as others probably do use these words as negatives and negatively reinforce them.
Regardless – you do need delta’s and bridges. You just aren’t supposed to respond to a positive response to a delta using a negative response. You want to positively respond to the correct behavior once a delta is issued. All a delta is – is – that wasn’t correct – stop and reset.
Basically focusing on the words and not whether you are positively or negatively responding to them – IS the problem.
Finally – this isn’t “new” – behavioralists have been studying this forever. Every time I come across a positive parenting or positive psychology person – it’s like – they just discovered behavioral psychology – read up on it and don’t fully understand it – but they start teaching it anyway.
I was apprenticed in this and it’s frustrating to listen to teachers who have been through a positive psychology training – a person with a background in clinical psychology a) not have been exposed to behavioral psychology at all and b) not be taught behavioral psychology properly! It underpins everything. Seriously. It does.
Wednesday May 01, 2019
You never know who the stranger next to you is
Wednesday May 01, 2019
Wednesday May 01, 2019
Get to know people. Make new friends. You never know who might be able to help you - randomly. #Humanism in action.
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Don't Take it Personally
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
The world doesn't revolve around you: Critical Thinking
https://humanistlearning.com
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Humanism: Treating Other People Fairly
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Other people matter too: Humanism
https://humanistlearning.com
Tuesday May 23, 2017
The Death of Rational Discourse
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Believe it or not - sometime you win by not fighting! A scientifically validated approach to dealing with online trolls. https://humanistlearning.com/socratic-jujitsu/