Laws of Learning (p.200)
• Law of Effect – (p.200) Acts that produce satisfaction in a given situation become associated with that situation; when the situation recurs, the act is likely to recur. A stimulus-response” reaction circumstance where a positive reaction will most likely reproduce the action which caused it.
• Law of Exercise – (p.200) The more an act or response is used in a given situation, the more strongly the act becomes associated with that situation. A circumstance where repetition increases the connection.
Conditioned Reflexes (p.203)
• Conditioned Reflexes – (p.203) Reflexes that are conditional or dependent on the formation of an association or connection between stimulus and response. Some action or feeling that you …show more content…
His pioneering efforts made it possible for men such as B.F. Skinner and Albert Bandura to not only continue making forward strides in psychology, but to also continue developing more schools of thought.
Personal Reaction
1. A-ha moment – Prejudice and discrimination are not new concepts to mankind, but to a new country like the United States I have often wondered how they got their foothold so quickly. Excluding slavery, the bias questions presented in the IQ tests at Ellis Island contributed exponentially to the problem by labeling and separating those suspected of being less-intelligent. And they just happened to be about everyone not of a Northern European descent.
2. A question that still lingers – How is it possible for the public majority to accept Watson’s doctrine of child rearing when his family was a model of how not to raise your children? Was the public then, like now, more impressed with charisma and charm than actual results? And how could Watson believe the sermon he preached when his own family disproved his theory?
3. A discussion of how the ideas presented agree or disagree with
• Law of Effect – (p.200) Acts that produce satisfaction in a given situation become associated with that situation; when the situation recurs, the act is likely to recur. A stimulus-response” reaction circumstance where a positive reaction will most likely reproduce the action which caused it.
• Law of Exercise – (p.200) The more an act or response is used in a given situation, the more strongly the act becomes associated with that situation. A circumstance where repetition increases the connection.
Conditioned Reflexes (p.203)
• Conditioned Reflexes – (p.203) Reflexes that are conditional or dependent on the formation of an association or connection between stimulus and response. Some action or feeling that you …show more content…
His pioneering efforts made it possible for men such as B.F. Skinner and Albert Bandura to not only continue making forward strides in psychology, but to also continue developing more schools of thought.
Personal Reaction
1. A-ha moment – Prejudice and discrimination are not new concepts to mankind, but to a new country like the United States I have often wondered how they got their foothold so quickly. Excluding slavery, the bias questions presented in the IQ tests at Ellis Island contributed exponentially to the problem by labeling and separating those suspected of being less-intelligent. And they just happened to be about everyone not of a Northern European descent.
2. A question that still lingers – How is it possible for the public majority to accept Watson’s doctrine of child rearing when his family was a model of how not to raise your children? Was the public then, like now, more impressed with charisma and charm than actual results? And how could Watson believe the sermon he preached when his own family disproved his theory?
3. A discussion of how the ideas presented agree or disagree with