Article of the Day, from Alston Mabry
"An algorithm that learns through rewards may show how our brain does too"
Zubin Al Genubi writes:
You can shape a child's behavior through positive reinforcement of successive approximations of the desired behavior. Attention is the greatest re-enforcer. Unwittingly parents shape bad behavior by paying attention to bad behavior. "Now Johnny, don't hit your sister, that is not nice" is reinforcing.