Talk:Behavioral contrast

Theory of operant contrast

I'm removing the section called "Negative (positive) contrast in operant conditioning". It does not correctly state any "theory" of operant contrast but rather gives a mentalistic interpretation that does not represent the nature of operant conditioning (see Operant conditioning. Rather, contast is thought to reflect fundamental property of reward systems in animals and humans, and does not depend on a subject viewing the behavior as work or play, etc. The gist of the phenomenon was described in the introductory paragraph. [[Db4wp (talk) 17:54, 10 October 2012 (UTC)]]

(later) I'm also removing the section that attempts to relate contrast to human relationships. The only reference is to an irrelevant study of contrast in pigeons. The section mis-states the nature of contrast, and any connection between the sort of human relationships discussed here and the experimentally-studied contrast phenomenon is extremely speculative. Db4wp (talk) 14:00, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Article renamed

The former title was too specific and didn't convey the generality of the idea; searches might not find it easily. Some theorists might prefer to limit the new tile (Behavioral Contrast) to experiments using response rate as the response measure, but it is hard to find a better general term. Db4wp (talk) 19:08, 16 October 2012 (UTC)