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Originally Posted by gemini5362
Pat do you ring a bell when you reward that behavior. ( I wont go into how pat gets his sodas when he is working upstairs in his house.)
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Transfer of reward from the initial reward to a substitute (ring of a bell) can work but it takes longer to condition someone to do much work to hear the bell. Peer interest and pressure helps in that respect in setting expectations and standards. In a grade school class, for instance, if a group of kids go to the board and add a column of figures with the first one to get a right answer getting the coveted award of having the teacher ring the bell for them, they will try much harder than if not rewarded with the bell ringing in their honor.
This sort of motivation and conditioning goes beyond Pavlov but is not that far afield.
I think my soda request and delivery system is very useful, practical, and within proper taste and civility. Pushing it would be using the intercom to direct someone from a remote area to come to the soda supply area to fulfill the system operation.
Oh, and by the way. I have only loaned out my trailer (12,000 pound all steel util trailer) one time (without me attached) and it was returned like it left except the borrower chocked the wheels nicely.
Pat