From b7d4f0f1a2f29bcba2df01545be33e2bf16db0da24b36441ca2f9d127f37907a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Add "Digital Skinner box" to glossary --- content/glossary.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'content/glossary.md') diff --git a/content/glossary.md b/content/glossary.md index d989e40..eeb234e 100644 --- a/content/glossary.md +++ b/content/glossary.md @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ Someone twelve years of age or less. Calling adolescents and teenagers children ## Consume To use up. Downloading online content (e.g. movies, music, videos, videogames, e-books) leaves the original copy intact, so it is misleading to say online content is consumed. +## Digital Skinner box +A digital environment that conditions people to certain behaviors in much the same way psychologist B.F. Skinner conditioned rats using behavioral reinforcements. Antisocial media and many online videogames are digital skinner boxes. + ## Digital tulips Cryptocurrency. A reference to tulip mania of the Dutch Golden Age. -- cgit v1.2.3