Lauren Slater

from those unstable (Slater 63). There are many questions that sprang up from Rosenhan’s experiment. Are psychiatrists’ opinions reliable? Do psychiatrists tend to diagnose patients with whatever condition is common in society at the time? Views on psychiatry and the diagnostic process vary from person to person. However, one thing that everyone can agree with is that we all hope that psychiatrists are doing everything they can to help their patients. In chapter three of Lauren Slater’s book,…

In her book “Opening Skinner’s Box,” Lauren Slater invites us in this book to reflect on human nature by describing, commenting and inquiring about classic experiments in psychology. In chapter 7: “Rat Park” The Radical Addiction Experiment. She brings up an experiment that Bruce Alexander, a psychologist; made with rats. He decided to build a colorful park where he put from 16 to 20 rats of both genders with abundant food, balls and wheels to play. On the other hand, he isolated other ones into…

"On Being Sane in Insane Places: EXPERIMENTING WITH PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS," Lauren Slater introduces David Rosenhan 's experiment and his emphasis on improper diagnosis. This chapter reviews Rosenhan 's original experiment and a duplicate, but the results slightly differ. The conflicts faced in these experiments are mislabeling with improper diagnosis and unfair treatment, while being admitted into a state hospital. Slater does an outstanding job explaining Rosenhan 's experiment, his findings,…

year, a huge amount of money is used to pay for treatments, or even worse, to buy drugs. That’s why many scientists have conducted experiments and research in order to understand more about drug addiction, its causes, and how to get rid of it. Lauren Slater, in the chapter “Rat Park,” writes about some experiments made since the 1960s about drug addiction and the causes that lead to it. In these research studies, some argue that drug addiction is caused by the brain, others that drugs are…

Numerous amounts of social psychology experiments have been conducted throughout the years, several have been praised for their finding while others have been brutally criticized . In chapter three, “Obscura” from the book, Opening Skinner’s Box by Lauren Slater she lays out an overview of the American social psychologist, Stanley Milgram's experiments. Milgram’s controversial psychological experiments began the summer of 1961.The objective of the experiment was to focus on the obedience…

. The author of the chapter “Obscura” is Lauren Slater; she is a psychologist as well. This chapter comes out of a novel called Opening Skinners Box. The main characters presented in this chapter are Stanley Milgram, who is in charge of doing the experiment on testing obedience, and there was fake names given to the volunteers for the experiment. This chapter was about an experiment that tested the importance of obeying somebody in a white coat and who would obey or give up. There was a teacher…

Identifying the Self Lauren Slater firsts introduces us to Stanley Milgram and his experiments in the chapter Obscura. In this chapter we revolve around the topic of self-identity compared to who we really are while under the influence of the power of authority. Slater, although unclear of the true meaning of these experiments, finds they have great power in shedding light on the distinction between who we think we are versus who we truly are (Slater, 39). This then makes myself wonder, am I…

“doing things that fourteen year olds do. And then some” (Slater 75). Slater recalls parts of her experience in the ward, including the patients getting together to discuss their diagnosis and to swap “tricks of the trade”, often to get new medication and added attention (Slater 76). Slater points out that it became difficult to tell if the medications were who she actually was or if she was a person outside of them (Slater 76). Later in life, Slater again returns to the reception room of a…

In the book, “Opening Skinner’s Box” Lauren Slater introduces a few famous phycologists Skinner, Milgram, and Rosenhan. Slater looks up to these phycologists and looks past their indiscretions to inform the readers of their ambitious drive to change Phycology by conducting bizarre experiments. They both have been heavily criticized for their scientific work, and it has impacted their lives and society tremendously. Milgram 's view was that people do not need emotion to inflict pain, they can…

Lauren Slater used Opening Skinner’s Box to demonstrate B. F. Skinner’s biography, and unorthodox experiments as a psychologist. Slater acts like detective psychologist who is confused about the “real” Skinner. She wants to know who exactly he was, and what are the real facts and myths about Skinner’s life, personality, methods, and interactions with people and family members. I guess, it’s a research journey for Slater to find out every truth about the male colleague called Skinner. She is nosy…