Intro to psychology discussion 2

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Discussion Question (DQ 6)

Chapter 6 and Chapter 8

Due Following Monday by 11:59 p.m. (Central Standard Time)

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Chapter 6

Video clips:

Classical Conditioning (CC) versus Operant Conditioning (OC):

Classical Conditioning (CC) – The Office:

Classical Conditioning (CC) – How I Met Your Mother:

Operant Conditioning (OC) and Shaping – Big Bang Theory:

1. Using scholarly sources define learning and habituation.

2. Pick between Classical (sometime discuss as Pavlovian, Respondent, Associative) Conditioning or Operant (sometimes discuss as Instrumental, Non-Associative) Conditioning and summarize key features.

3. Based on your pick from Item 2 Conditioning, illustrate how the theory can help train a puppy to turn in a complete clockwise circle to receive a doggie treat. Go ahead and be creative in your dog training illustration.

Chapter 8

4. To elaborate on the building blocks of thought briefly describe Mental Representations. Also, briefly describe the Concept Hierarchies and provide an example from your daily life.

5. Briefly explain anchoring heuristic. People tend to show anchoring effect even if you explain to them that effect beforehand. How do you think anchoring plays out in day-to-day life?

Video clip:

The secrets of leaning a new language:

Part of learning involves language. Language is characterized by a complex organization, from the smallest units of sound recognizable as speech, to phrases, and finally sentences. Each level of human language is constructed and understood according to grammatical rules, none of which are taught explicitly. Language plays an important role in daily communication and knowledge. Recent studies on languages have shown that certain language(s) is vanishing.

6. The linguist Noam Chomsky recognized that humans are born with an innate language acquisition device that guides language learning with little to no teaching and have complex generational influences. Search the Internet and identify and discuss a specific language that is vanishing or has vanished.

7. What is the role of language in intelligence?

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