In the beginning of the chapter "Opening Skinner’s Box‚" Lauren Slater acknowledges B.F. Skinner’s remarkable ability to conduct experiements with animals‚ and had many great successes with them. However‚ Slater would remind us in her own opinion that he had used his baby daughter was an experiment too. Skinner’s plan with his daughter was to "shape" her behavior‚ as he demanded from the rest of his experimentations. Furthermore‚ Slater continuously questions Skinner’s motives for everything‚ from
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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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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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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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Within chapter one of Opening Skinners Book Lauren Slater brings the reader’s attention in through a whirlwind of thoughts‚ gossip‚ research‚ and even an interview with B.F. Skinner’s daughter Julie Skinner Vargas. She begins to report where he came from‚ whom he fell in love with‚ and where his life began. Within the walls of Harvard he began to put into place an experiment for rats that would later become a huge advantage into psychology (10). Later‚ Skinner begins to recall how to train animals
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Matt Noah Summer Assignment AP Psychology 30 August 2017 Book Review Opening Skinner’s Box: Summary: This book consists of ten chapters each with its own short story‚ each of which containing an experiment. In the first chapter author Lauren Slater talks about the work done by psychologist B.F. Skinner‚ mainly about his experimentation and the controversy over his methods. He believed positive reinforcement worked better in establishing behavior than negative reinforcement. Chapter 2 talks about
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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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Skinner and his Contributions to Psychology University of Phoenix BEH/225 Skinner and his Contributions to Psychology Burrhus Fredric Skinner is an American psychologist and behaviorist. He has made many contributions to psychology and most are still used today. They are used to treat some phobias and addictive behaviors in humans. He also thought of radical behaviorism which is his own philosophy of science.
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In a report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine‚ researchers from the Center for Healthful Behavior Change at NYU School of Medicine discovered positive reinforcement‚ such as “receiving‚ unexpected gifts and introducing upbeat thoughts into daily routines” can aid patients with high blood pressure take their medication on time and stay on track. Said discovery is vital because poor blood pressure can progress to heart problems and death. For this study‚ 256 black patients with high
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she argues that she is against Harlow’s experiments on the monkey. On the other hand‚ she agrees with her husband when he brings up the point of if experimenting on monkeys is worth saving their daughter’s life. Paragraph one- In her book‚ Opening Skinner’s Box‚ Lauren Slater maintains that “…there’s that one percent of me that’s not from the forests‚ and this fragment of self can see that to hurt one is somehow‚ somewhere‚ to hurt all.” (153-154) In making this comment‚ Slater urges us to realize
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