Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Sign up for free

Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control

Avatar for Audrey Watters Audrey Watters
June 15, 2018
Education
970
0

Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control

Avatar for Audrey Watters

Audrey Watters

June 15, 2018

More Decks by Audrey Watters

See All by Audrey Watters
Ed-Tech Agitprop
Avatar for Audrey Watters audreywatters
3
1.8k
The History of the Future of Learning Objects
Avatar for Audrey Watters audreywatters
0
840
The Brave Little Surveillance Bear and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Our Children
Avatar for Audrey Watters audreywatters
0
200
Pigeons and Pers
Avatar for Audrey Watters audreywatters
0
210
Higher Education in the Disinformation Age
Avatar for Audrey Watters audreywatters
0
160
Education Technology's Completely Over
Avatar for Audrey Watters audreywatters
0
160
The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't "Tech")
Avatar for Audrey Watters audreywatters
0
190
Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education
Avatar for Audrey Watters audreywatters
0
150
Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump
Avatar for Audrey Watters audreywatters
1
850

Other Decks in Education

See All in Education
Evaluation Methods - Lecture 6 - Human-Computer Interaction (1023841ANR)
Avatar for Beat Signer signer
PRO
0
1.7k
Sekolah Sabat - Triwulan 4 2026 - Pelajaran 6
Avatar for Adam hiola
0
470
El Clima de España. Tema 2 (PPT)
Avatar for Juan Martín Martín juanmartin2026
0
19k
25-26 CBT Library top items
Avatar for cbtlibrary cbtlibrary
0
380
Digijulkaisut
Avatar for Matleena Laakso matleenalaakso
1
10k
JavaScript - Lecture 6 - Web Technologies (1019888BNR)
Avatar for Beat Signer signer
PRO
0
3.6k
Introduction to Primary and Secondary Metabolites their Metabolic Pathways
Avatar for Dr Poonam Chougule drpoonamkc
0
180
Sekolah Sabat - Triwulan 4 2026 - Pelajaran 1
Avatar for Adam hiola
0
13k
EL GEOPARQUE MUNDIAL UNESCO VOLCANES DE CALATRAVA: DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA A LA TRANSPOSICIÓN DIDÁCTICA EN EL AULA
Avatar for Juan Martín Martín juanmartin2026
0
54k
2026年度秋学期　統計学　第3回　クロス集計と感度・特異度，データの可視化 (2026. 10. 13)
Avatar for Akira Asano akiraasano
PRO
0
280
2026年度秋学期　統計学　講義の進め方と成績評価について (2026. 9. 28)
Avatar for Akira Asano akiraasano
PRO
0
260
Session 3 - Mass Communication
Avatar for Ade Putranto Prasetyo Wijiharto Tunggali adeputra13
0
260

Featured

See All Featured
Applied NLP in the Age of Generative AI
Avatar for Ines Montani inesmontani
PRO
4
2.5k
From Legacy to Launchpad: Building Startup-Ready Communities
Avatar for Dug Song dugsong
0
360
Why Your Marketing Sucks and What You Can Do About It - Sophie Logan
Avatar for Sophie Logan marketingsoph
0
440
More Than Pixels: Becoming A User Experience Designer
Avatar for Michelle Schulp Hunt marktimemedia
3
600
What does AI have to do with Human Rights?
Avatar for Per Axbom axbom
PRO
1
2.5k
GraphQLとの向き合い方2022年版
Avatar for Yosuke Kurami quramy
50
15k
Agile that works and the tools we love
Avatar for Rasmus Luckow-Nielsen rasmusluckow
331
22k
Side Projects
Avatar for Sacha Greif sachag
456
43k
Navigating Weather and Climate Data
Avatar for Ryan Abernathey rabernat
0
570
Test your architecture with Archunit
Avatar for Yoan thirion
2
2.5k
How GitHub (no longer) Works
Avatar for Zach Holman holman
316
150k
How to Think Like a Performance Engineer
Avatar for Harry Roberts csswizardry
28
2.9k

Transcript

  1. Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control Audrey Watters Tech4Good, June

    2018

  2. Programming and Social Engineering Audrey Watters Tech4Good, June 2018

  3. Audrey Watters Tech4Good, June 2018 Who the F**k does the

    Tech Industry Think It Is

  4. B. F. Skinner: A History of “Behavioral Design” Audrey Watters

    Tech4Good, June 2018

  5. “Skinner Agrees He Is the Most Important Influence in Psychology”

    — The New York Times Magazine, 1968

  6. “The Skinner Box”

  7. The pigeon-guided missile

  8. None

  9. “Teaching machines”

  10. Operant conditioning and the “War on Poverty”

  11. None

  12. Persuasive technologies