It's About Skiing and Not the Skis: Behavior Theory, Skiing, and Ski Teaching

People have been skiing—and no doubt teaching others to do the same—for thousands of years. The earliest evidence for it is a picture on the wall of a cave in Norway that was drawn sometime around 4500 BC. Skiing is something that we do. It is a behavior. Teaching others to ski is also something that we do. It, too, is a behavior. Pavlov and his dog helped to demonstrate that behavior is lawful and orderly. Various forms of conditioning as well as reinforcement, generalization, discriminati...