•Pick one of your GCSE or ESF Advanced Diploma (other than ToK) subjects.What sorts of ‘knowledge’ and/or ‘truths’ does this subject convey?Reflecting upon your personal experience, how did you acquire your knowledge in this subject. Was it in an experiential, propositional or practical manner. Was it in more than one way? Remember Calvin and his wisdom about rocks.
I think Psychology is one subjects in which I've learnt from and can relate to personally. In psychology we learnt that children go through a few phases of forming attachments with their parents (mothers, in specific) Starting from the first month, they slowly form attachments, expressing that in different ways. I have a baby cousin, who went through exactly those stages, and I watched it all happen in front of my eyes. In our lesson, we were taught of psychologists who came up with these theories and they're experiments to prove their hypothesis, but it never means as much, unless you face it yourself!
I acquired this knowledge in an experiential manner.
In psychology, we were taught different ways of learning. An example I will give, is classical conditioning, whereby you learn a behaviour by associating it with other things. Pablo introduced this idea, and did an experiment on a dog. At first he presented food in front of the dog, and noticed the dog producing a lot of saliva. When he rang a bell, the dog didn't respond in any way. After presenting the food WITH the bell a few times, he noticed the dog would salivate on the sound of the bell ALONE.
This is true, as I have experienced this before too and this is very common in everyday life as well. If you are constantly faced with 2 items put together, eventually, they both cause the same reaction. It may sound funny, but its true. And it can all be proven, by experiencing, hence I aquired this through an experiential manner.
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