Opening Skinner Box Analysis

Opening skinner box essay

There are so many experiments in the world, but I will be focusing on one, Opening Skinner’s Box chapter #3. In this chapter eight volunteers agreed to an experiment to see what psychiatric wards are like on the inside. The view from the inside doesn’t always come out to what we think or expect it will be. It is discouraging on how people are treating in a psychiatric ward, but is there any hope for man kind? A psychiatric Dr. decides he wants to know if a mentally normal person goes into a ward if a psychiatrist would be able to tell weather he was or not mentally normal. Theses eight volunteers did not brush there teeth nor did they bath so they could convince people that they were crazy. All eight of the volunteers got admitted to different psychiatric wards because they all clam to hear voices saying “thud“. You would think that all eight volunteers …show more content…
One of volunteer was a doctor and knew the ins and out and one thing is the thud they heard was never recorded before so it make the other doctors think. When they got to the facility they all seen the same thing happening staff being rude, not caring for them correctly and abusing the mentally unstable. The walls were of urine smell and had graffiti scratched all over them. I have always believed that when you have been at the same job, same thing for a long period of time and see others doing wrong people get complacent and start thinking it is ok to do these kind of things to people. Its like see one, do one, teach one is what I have always learn while I was going through nursing school. When is it that a mentally ill person can tell what is going on more then the doctors can? The eight volunteers deicide that it was time to become normal and see if they doctor and the staff are able to tell that they were normal people. The doctors were not able to tell but I think that is because they did