experiments‚ Lauren Slater begins to research and understand the idea of whether or not a person has free will. I believe‚ every person has free will‚ but cues and councel impact the outcome of our decisions. Jerome Kagan dives under his desk and explains to Lauren Slater the he has free will. Jerome says‚ “I’m under my desk‚ I’ve NEVER gotten under my desk before. Is this not an act of free will?” (17). Jerome has never been under his desk before‚ but because he was explaining to Slater about free
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After finishing the book “Opening Skinner’s Box” by Lauren Slater the Chapter on Eric Kandel’s sea slug experiment is what I found very interesting. Eric Kandel is a psychoanalysis and neurologist who did an experiment using Aplysia slugs. In this experiment he trained his sea slugs by touching their bodies and siphons with an electric probe. This caused the sea slugs gill to withdrew. This experiment caused Kandel to discover with his colleagues that the sea slugs reflex could possibly be form
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able to get DBS‚ deep brain stimulation‚ which is a surgery that implants a medical device‚ to improve their brain and to help them live a better life. But after the surgery does the person become more or less authentic? In Lauren Slater’s essay “Who Holds the Clicker?”‚ Slater studies the symptoms and experience of thirty-six years old Mario Della Grotta‚ who is diagnosed with obsessive – compulsive disorder‚ or OCD. He suffers from a live of looped-loop in which he repeats actions fearing incompleteness
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In the book‚ Opening Skinner’s Box Lauren Slater introduces many psychologists‚ one of the few she has studied was Leon Festinger. Festinger taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later published The Theory of Cognitive Dissonance in 1957. Dissonance means a lack of agreement between beliefs someone may hold dear. Festinger believed humans conform to an ideology to conceal their actions. Festinger’s theory clearly states‚ “An individual created a motivation force that would lead‚ under
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they agreed or believed in something? Cognitive Dissonance has had a positive effect on everyone’s belief systems in today’s generation‚ and it makes anyone believe something that is either real or not real. In the Chapter “Quieting the mind‚” Lauren Slater explores an experiment by Leon Festinger which involved a group of people who thought the world was coming to an end on December 21‚ 1954. When it hit midnight nothing had changed. Festinger observed that follower’s people who believed they were
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In this chapter of the book “Sane in insane places” “Lauren Slater‚ Opening Skinner’s Box” David Rosenhan totally exploited the way doctors diagnosed patients and how patients were treated as almost convicts in mental hospitals. He also proved using psychology is not a consistent way of diagnosing patients with loads of pills most patients didn’t need. Also how the same experiment Rosenhan came up with was repeated years later but was due to the fact doctors weren’t giving thorough examinations.
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In chapter four of Opening Skinner’s Box‚ Lauren Slater begins by discussing the rape- murder of Kitty Genovese‚ and the experiments done by Darley and Latane attempting to understand the failure of bystanders to intervene. The chapter also touches the effect on front page suicides upon the behavior of the public. Robert Cialdini‚ a social psychologist changes his behavior after noticing front page suicide stories. He limits himself from extended trips requiring a lot of air time‚ and he is cautious
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Stanford professor David Rosenhan conducted a study that challenged psychiatrist’s ability to properly diagnose their patients. Rosenhan‚ along with eight peers‚ set off to various mental health institutions with the intention of being admitted. The test group was comprised of sane‚ professional people who were to complain of only one issue: “I am hearing a voice. It is saying thud.” And aside from that‚ they were to act completely normal. His theory of misdiagnosis seemed to have been proven‚ as
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Opening Skinner’s box by Lauren Slater as a psychologist herself covers 10 great psychological experiences of the twentieth century to bring them to life by understanding how they were thought up‚ how they were received by other psychologists and what effects they had on the participants. For more then a century‚ psychologists have desperately sought to have their disciplines accepted. Psychology requires some degree of trickery in the experimental set-up. But how much insight do we then gain
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figures that are usually involved in controlling MT’s are the government‚ doctors‚ and society.Each representative has its own advantages and disadvantages .In both essays ‚”The Made to Order Savior” by Lisa Belkin and “Who Holds the Clicker” by Lauren Slater ‚ medical technology procedures are executed yet controlled and regulated differently. Every figure has its own guidelines as to how to control this technology and at times there was no control at all .Medical practices are very important and sometimes
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