Lauren Slater

other hand believe we are a “well established” species. Innovation of technology and Health are the topics most favorable by scientists and theorists which include both articles, “Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle and “Who Holds the Clicker?” By Lauren Slater. These articles discuss matters dealing with humans advancements and regarding the brain being controlled. Mind Control which can be a real thing is far more threatening to human authenticity. Turkle offers insight…

power than us. Or at least think that we do. If a man in an officers uniform tells you to do something, you are more likely to act then if a man in tattered old robes and reeks of trash tells you to do the same task. You wouldn’t even think twice. Lauren Slater, in her book “Opening Skinner’s Box,” explains the experiment done by Stanley Milgram. He had attempted to weed out obedience from the people in his experiments. His findings, although not equation-worthy, changed how people looked at…

Alleviating Cognitive Dissonance In the chapter “Quieting the Mind” of the book, Opening Skinner’s Box, author Lauren Slater examines the theory of cognitive dissonance. Leon Festinger, a psychologist at the University of Minnesota, originally introduced the theory of cognitive dissonance to psychology in 1957. The basic way of thinking about cognitive dissonance is that it refers to a situation when two or more cognitive elements (such as behaviors and attitudes/ beliefs) are inconsistent,…

shape as that person grows and matures. Mario, who suffers from severe OCD, is restricted by his inhibitions, but he grows as a person through his surgery. Now energized and invigorated, “Mario went home, He wanted to talk, He wanted to do things” (Slater 8). Previously, Mario was very lethargic because combating his OCD took everything from him. By taking advantage of a golden opportunity he can finally live his life the way he wants to. Coincidentally, as the children from the marshmallow…

no leadership structure, groups tend to break down to the point where no one feels as if they are responsible to take on the specific task. In “the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: Darley and Latane’s Training Manual—A Five Stage Approach” by Lauren Slater, Catherine Genovese, commonly known as “Kitty” was coming home on the night of March 13th (Friday the thirteenth) in the year of 1964 from her late night shift at the bar where she worked as a manager. She pulled into her car space and…

work. The simple accessibility to shortcuts such as calculators are deferring us from using our common sense and knowledge and can eventually lead to advancements in which we lose control of what we have invented. Two authors, Wendell Berry and Lauren Slater give us instances that portray what can result…

is a huge controversial topic around the world. Many people may enjoy the feeling of certain substances while others turn to the use of drugs to adapt to tough environmental situations. In chapter seven of Opening Skinner 's Box, "Rat Park" Lauren Slater starts of by introducing us to Bruce Alexander. Bruce Alexander was a psychologist who was not completely convinced as to why people or animals reacted to the addiction of drugs the way they did. Alexander…

Lauren Slater points out that DBS-deep brain stimulation-is an electric shock to the brain to control people’s behaviors, which becomes a breakthrough of medical technology to treat people who have OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder). As human beings, people should be able to control their feelings and behaviors, which is a basic human right…

According to Stanley Milgram in his novel the “The Perils of Obedience”, he states that authority figures can cause signs of tension and turn people into “lethal intrustuments in the hands of unscrupulous authority” (184). Also in Chapter 4 of Lauren Slaters novel, “Obedience Skinners Box”, states that humans rely on their social cues and see what others to do in reaction to someone in danger by using Darley and Latane’s Training Manual- Five Stage Approach that connects with a murder that took…

In Lord of the Flies, William Golding claims that two impulses exist in all human beings. The desire to live by the rules, and follow their everyday morals and the urge to become savages and hunt to survive. When the children first landed on the island, most of them agreed that order was needed. They all complied at the beginning and established their leader and their rules. Their conch at the island brought order and power to the individual holding it and it became a symbol of authority at the…