Air conditioning

Sociocultural Theory: In my original paper one of the theories I used to back up my arguments was the Sociocultural theory. This theory comes from Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. The concepts of this theory stem from the idea of nature vs nurture (heredity creates who you are vs your interactions with your environment creates who you are). Sociocultural theory leans more towards the nurture side of this concept. Vygotsky’s theory states that a child’s interactions with their social and…

John B. Watson who tried to leave the introspectionist theory behind and put his focus to mainly looking at intelligence and tried to narrow psychology to experimental laboratory methods. B.F Skinner and Ivan Pavlov focused on their concepts of conditioning which we know are Operant and Classical. The main assumptions of the Behaviourist theory is the idea of ‘free will’ is not correct and our behaviours have to be detected by our surrounding world either through being taught these or being…

wake of graduating in 1926, however with little success. After two years, Skinner enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology where he explored a more objective and measured way to study behaviour. Skinner created what he called an operant conditioning device to do this, better known the Skinner box. Skinner used the device to study an animal interacting with its environment. Initially mulled over rats in his analyses, perceiving how the rodents found and used to a level in the box, which…

The articles I am using for this assignment appear more into the middle of the argument for or against ABA, instead of strongly on either side. O. Ivar Lovaas was one of the most prominent early practitioners of ABA. He used many different methods and claimed that if he had gotten a hold of Hitler when Hitler was young, he could have changed Hitler to be kind. Some of Lovaa’s more controversial methods in terms of today was his use of electric shock and other kinds of physical punishment to keep…

classical conditioning experiments of Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov.…

Shortly after lunch I walk into my human anatomy class which has the strong smell of formaldehyde. Today is not like others, today we get to meet our cats. I walk up to my lab station to see a small black and orange cat laying in a bin. My friend, Alyssa, grabs blue latex gloves and snaps them on my hands as if we were about to begin a real surgery. In my tray lies three shiny silver instruments: a tweezers, a probe, and a scalpel. My hand instantly reaches for the scalpel. I grab it and begin…

operant conditioning, stimulus-response, reinforcements and punishments, objective measure, social learning, and reductionism (the notion that human behavior can be explained by breaking it down into smaller elements), (Khan, 2013; McLeod, 2013). Ivan Pavlov, John Watson, Edward Thorndike, and B.F. Skinner figure among some of the key theorist of this approach, (McLeod, 2013; Ormrod, 2012; Watson, 1999). Two of the most well-know theories of behaviorism are classical (or respondent) conditioning…

Modeling, shaping, and chaining are three different processes to implement behavior change. Imitation is the use of physical demonstration, shaping is a manipulating a behavior to be executed in a particular form, and chaining is simplifying a behavior into smaller responses to make up on complex behavior. Extinction is the process of removing reinforcers for a behavior and is used in shaping new behavior. When conducting a behavior chain, task analysis has an important role for revealing the…

wondered why your mouth waters when for example the microwave beeps that it is done? Or why your dog gets hyper or drools when he hears you from a far distance yelling dinnertime? The way we learn these things are through a process called Classical Conditioning. It all started when a “Russian physiologist named Ivan Pavlov found that before he fed his dogs, when they smelled, saw the food, or even the person that feeds them, they would slobber. Pavlov figured out that dogs had learned that these…

Have you ever wondered just how much your dog understands? Sure, your dog knows a few tricks, but did you know dogs can do math? Studies have shown that dogs not only recognize the difference between large and small, and many and few, but they can also count. For instance, dogs can figure out one treat plus one treat equals two treats. In an experiment, a dog watches as a researcher first puts one treat and then another behind a screen. Then, the researcher removes one treat when the dog is not…