ACVL300 Assignment 1 (Part 1)

The Human Body 

Why we must take care of our bodies.

Point of departure -The physical phenomenon we call the human body – to an extent the human body is not made an integral part modern education of the physical world.

My object is conditioning, its function is to make a pattern of events by learning.

A learning procedure that leads to neural stimulus to react and create a chain of predicted events. In its essence it’s the power of the law of attraction.  classical conditioning, Watson conducted a somewhat similar experiment with a 9-month-old boy named Albert. This experiment became known as the “Little Albert Experiment.” (Goldstein, 2011) Little Albert responded well to a rat and displayed no negative feelings towards the animal as it moved towards him. The rat moving towards Albert is considered the uncontrolled stimulus (UCS) and his positive response to the rat is considered the unconditioned response (UCR) as his feelings are naturally occurring. Watson began by making a loud noise anytime the rat came close to little albert, the controlled stimulus (CS), startling him. After time, when little albert saw the rat move towards him, the uncontrolled stimulus (UCS), he would crawl away as fast as he could, the controlled response (CR). So, what we have here is the removal of the controlled stimulus, the loud noise, but over time being startled by the noise was associated with negative feelings and the rat moving towards him. Albert was conditioned to dislike or be frightened of the rat because of something else frightening him at the same time he would see the rat. (Roach. 2015)

The other conditioning theory

Operant conditioning theory: the 3 types of responses

1.    Neutral
Responses that do not alter the probability of a behaviour being repeated.

2.    Reinforcers
Responses that increase the probability of a behaviour being repeated.

3.    Punishers
Responses that decrease the probability of a behaviour being repeated. (C.Pappas.2015)

If our daily lives and routines are structured in a way that opens the realm of possibility or occurrences maybe we are conditioned as we speak.

What does time and space have to do with them – who governs it, it cannot come from nowhere, when where why who.

Observational learning

In the case of observational learning, the learner can learn a new skill and behaviour/pattern simply by “modelling,” which simply means observing and imitating gestures and behaviours carried out by the subject (the model). This form of learning is proven to have a very low failure rate, unlike the case of operant learning.

Observational learning has long been practiced in the field of psychology and has been studied intensively. In clinical psychology, observational learning has already been applied in the technique called therapeutic modelling for obsessive–compulsive disorder and specific phobias, and has been proven effective in inhibiting abnormal behaviours caused by such mental diseases (Y.Oouchida, E.Suzuki, N.Aizu, N.Takeuchi and S.Izumi,2016)