Another name for operant conditioning is instrumental learning‚ introduced by Edward L. Thorndike 1913. Thorndike began studying “animal thinking”. Cat experiment: cat would perform a specific response‚ such as pulling a wire or a lever and was rewarded food after each escape. “law of effect” behavior is influenced by its consequences First book published‚ the behaviour of organisms 1938. Skinner demonstrated that organisms tend to repeat those responses that are followed by favourable consequences
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Chapter 6 Summary – Friends Chapter 6 is all based the strengthening of friendship between the characters of Caitlin and Bill and of Old bill and Billy. In the section Comfort Bill talks about how he hated school and didn’t have any friends. The repetition of the negative quotes in the section emphasises how Billy did not belong in his old environment. “I never talked to girls‚ I hardly talked to anyone. Sure‚ I answered questions from teachers and occasionally I’d talk to some guys I’d know
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Attitude: How one feels about something in general (I have a positive attitude towards basketball). Balance theory: the theory that people try to maintain balance among their beliefs‚ cognitions‚ and sentiments. Cognitive dissonance theory: the theory that inconsistencies between a person’s thoughts‚ sentiments‚ and actions create an aversive emotional state (dissonance) that leads to efforts to restore consistency. Effort justification: the tendency to reduce dissonance by finding reasons for
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After Spade’s discovery of Mr. Gutman and his trailing gunman‚ Wilbert. He was given orders to see Gutman by his little pawn. As Wilbert took him upstairs inside the hotel and outside Gutman’s room‚ Spade disarmed the two guns from his trench coat. They head inside into the room and told Gutman‚ such a rookie gunman should be running around with these‚ he’ll end up hurting himself. Gutman laughed‚ then apologized for their last interaction and told him about the origins of the Maltese Falcon and
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It is clear that changes in society‚ whether they are political or economical‚ always make a difference in the way education is viewed and taught. Chapter 6 talks about how the goals of education are linked to the questions of who controls American education and who decides what knowledge is of most value to teach to students. The first sections talks about should knowledge being taught be left up to federal government‚ state government‚ local school boards or parents. It all comes down to control
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highlights the venoms of slavery‚ suggesting that the mere ownership of slaves can poison even the most kindhearted person. In chapter six‚ Douglass focuses his narrative on his new slave owner Sophia Auld and also introduces two mistreated slaves‚ Mary and Henrietta‚ to support his central claim that slavery can deteriorate a person’s character and physical body. Douglass opens chapter six with the introduction of Sophia Auld to depict how slavery can corrupt a person’s nature. Sophia‚ Hugh Auld’s wife
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Unit 6 Chapter Exercises NT 1430 Tyrel Cain (19103625) Tyrel Cain NT1430 4/23/2015 Unit 6 Chapter Exercises Chapter 13 2. Which command would you give to update all installed packages using yum? # yum update 3. Why would you build a package from its source code when a (binary) rpm file is available? Most packages have options that are specified at compile time. The person who builds the rpm file sets these options to commonly used values. You may want other values; if you do‚ you need
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Club 1/6/03 Ch1 Jing-Mei Woo: The Joy Luck Club In this chapter we are introduced to the Joy Luck Club which originated all the way back in China when Jing-Mei Woo ’s mother Suyuan was in the city of Kweilin. At the Joy Luck Club a group of old Chinese women sit around and eat and after that they sit down in a table to play a friendly game of Mah-Jong. At the Joy Luck Club there are 4 major members‚ Lindo Jong‚ Ying-ying St. Clair‚ An-Mei Hsu‚ and Suyuan Woo. In the beginning of the chapter we learn
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How does the poem”Understand Old one” portrait the concept of “discovery”? Discovery can have a different impact on different individuals. The composer ”Oodgeroo Noonuccal” reflects on her discovery of the” old native burial ground” as a spiritual journey‚ rather than an intellectual journey experienced by the scientists and the modern world. Discovery can offer us a positive or negative experience. Oodgeroo Noonuccal felt strongly reverential towards the old one and the past‚ but she was more
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previewing and reading a chapter you will move on to the next step of the reading process which is processing ideas followed by post reading and retaining them. Signposts are visual aids used to assist students in focusing on the main points making an online to reflect on the topic. Beginnings and Endings are organized much like paragraphs and essays with the center focus being divided into topics and subtopics. Connections are reflection done after you preview the chapter‚ link new knowledge to
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