The Four Quadrants for Operating Conditioning

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Some people have reactants as a personality trait where they, when someone tries to get them to do something too hard, they'll actually wonder the opposite. That makes sense. So sometimes they just don't want to be shaped. And you know, I think if I'm pretty relaxed about it and I'm using positive sort of methods, they're not going to necessarily mind. But I feel like unlike how my dogs seem to be, my dogs mostly seem like endlessly interested in doing things that I will feel like doing,. Whereas my kids, it seems like I pretty quickly come up against this desire for autonomy.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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