Thursday, November 1, 2007

The subject that I’ve chose is Psychology. This subject allows you to learn about behaviors and how to communicate with other people. Other than gaining knowledge from the textbook, this knowledge allows you to apply it to real life. It is useful because we always meet new people and often needs to communicate with new people in a new environment. For example, I’ve learned about ‘learning’ which explains how we learn through the association between stimulus and response (classical conditioning) or learning by experience (operant conditioning). This also really allows me to think the way we learn and how do we know we learn something as what theory of knowledge is about.

The main idea in ‘learning’ in psychology is that we learn through classical and operant conditionings. Meaning, we learn by forming an association between stimulus and a response or we learn by experience. Other than that, punishment or reinforcement could affect whether that particular will be repeated.

The truth that this subject conveys is that it shows real information or attempts to their theory to suggest their thoughts. For example, in ‘learning’, a famous psychologist called Skinner support his theory that animals can learn behavior by rewards

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