[Post] Are we all gold's mice?

Who is Jenkins? A psychologist born a hundred years ago has never been hyped, but his theory, using the stock market, will make people sweat, suddenly found that we these speculators, it turns out to be like a mouse in the Jenkins experiment.

Jenkins kept the mouse in the lab box. If the mouse accidentally stepped on the control bar, there would be food Granules. The mouse had the reward and soon turned the previous unintentional behavior into deliberate behavior. As a result, Jenkins changed the reward frequency. To get a reward, a mouse must repress three, five, or 20 times, and the mouse will soon learn. If the reward is removed, the mouse gradually does not press the bar. This shows that after-event reinforcement, rats can "learn and grow ".

This is the most exciting part of Jenkins's experiment. He set the reward frequency to random, and most of the time the mouse went back empty-handed, but maybe 40 or 60 times, suddenly there was food. The average person intuitively thinks that a random reward with such a long interval will give the mouse no hope for the reward, causing the behavior of the Press Bar to disappear. This is not the case.

The method of intermittent rewards, but instead, made these mice feel like drug addiction, and continue to press on, whether or not they can be rewarded. Jenkins then compares a fixed frequency (such as a press bar getting food four times) with a random intermittent reward, and finds that in a random reward situation, eliminating the mouse Press Bar takes the longest time.

The discovery of Jenkins is of great significance, so that humans know their various types of stupid behaviors. there are patterns to follow. Why are we still confused even if we don't get a return? Why do we still feel a great favor when our friends are waiting by the phone and occasionally make calls from bad boyfriends? Why are people physically and mentally healthy, but in a smoggy casino? Why do female always overhead and male always like to play with stocks?

Jenkins tells us that all of this is "Intermittent reinforcement", which also allows us to see its operation process and the force that comes with it. This kind of psychological effect is amazing, and no one has ever been affected by it. We are deeply immersed in it, and no one can resist it.