(00:00:00)Your YouTube transcript will appear here(00:00:02)back in the old days at the casinos when (00:00:06)the one-armed bandits the slot machines (00:00:08)had cranks he had to go like this to (00:00:10)poem now is rather good old days now in (00:00:13)you just push buttons those slot (00:00:15)machines are structured on what the (00:00:18)behavior psychologists call a variable (00:00:20)ratio reinforcement schedule fancy (00:00:25)sounding right (00:00:26)it means rewards at random you don't (00:00:28)know when they're going to pay off and (00:00:30)this is the most powerful reinforcement (00:00:33)schedule to get somebody to behave a (00:00:34)certain way so consequently people would (00:00:37)get tendinitis doing this trying to get (00:00:40)those machines to pay off they'd have (00:00:43)had pigeons peck for a little seed (00:00:47)reward on a variable ratio schedule the (00:00:51)pigeons will pick themselves into (00:00:52)exhaustion to get a reward every so (00:00:58)often this is one of the reasons why (00:01:02)lying is so hard to break if you have a (00:01:05)child who lies even if you catch them (00:01:10)every so often they get away with it the (00:01:14)definition of a good liar is that you (00:01:17)didn't know he was lying (00:01:18)and so those times that you have (00:01:21)responded very strongly in your (00:01:23)parenting and you think look what we did (00:01:25)we grounded him for three weeks we made (00:01:28)him write up 500 word essay and two days (00:01:32)later he's lying again variable ratio (00:01:35)schedules are tough to deal with that's (00:01:39)one explanation why lying is so hard to (00:01:43)deal with what's your option well when (00:01:47)you know it's a lie you got to respond (00:01:49)and you hope that over time maturity (00:01:53)kicks in and morality kicks in in the (00:01:57)meantime don't play the slots I'm dr. (00:02:01)ray
