Yes, well, then he gets pummeled by the impatient child sliding behind him...he tends to stop before the end and just sit there reveling in the glory, you see.
I'm starting to sense a pattern here. I think you need to leave the child on the slide; you won't get shocked, and he'll learn that if he sits and revels, he gets pummeled, which in turn will lead to him not sitting and reveling.
Unless, that is, there's some kind of congenital learning defect at play here. I mean, if you can't learn not to do something that causes you pain, maybe Mac can't either. I mean, rats in mazes learn that if they get shocked doing something, they should stop doing it, right?
I'll certainly agree that Mac seems bad at learning not to repeat activities that cause him pain - witness his game of tossing objects up in the air and then maneuvering so they hit his head.
As for me, I'll just ask if they ever put mommy rats in mazes with their baby rats behind the shock field about to get kicked in their tails. :) Cuz that would be an interesting experiment.
But I can't think very well right now - maybe I'm still fuzzy from the shocks. :)
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Unless, that is, there's some kind of congenital learning defect at play here. I mean, if you can't learn not to do something that causes you pain, maybe Mac can't either. I mean, rats in mazes learn that if they get shocked doing something, they should stop doing it, right?
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As for me, I'll just ask if they ever put mommy rats in mazes with their baby rats behind the shock field about to get kicked in their tails. :) Cuz that would be an interesting experiment.
But I can't think very well right now - maybe I'm still fuzzy from the shocks. :)