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Discussion Week 4: Learning & Memory

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Please post your individual response by the end of the day on Wednesday, and post your responses (at least 2) to other students’ posts by the end of the day on Sunday.

Part 1: Classical and Operant Conditioning.

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-difference-between-classical-and-operant-conditioning-peggy-andover (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Watch the TED talk above.

Compare and contrast the differences between classical and operant conditioning.

Share two of your own examples of each type of conditioning.

Part 2: Observational Learning.

Watch the video and answer the questions below:

Share stories on what and how you learned about aggression and violence at home.

How may learning aggression and violence from parents differ by age of the child?

How may this impact tantrums, bullying, and anger management?

Part 3: Mnemonics.

Choose 3 mnemonics that are discussed in the text. Define them and give examples of each. Discuss how you can use each mnemonic in your everyday life.

Part 4: False Memories.

Watch Loftus TED talk and answer the following questions:

Did anything surprise you about this video? What did you learn from watching this video?

Are there any false memories that you may have had in your life? Why are you suspicious that they are not real memories?

Do you agree with parents planting false memories in their children? If so, what types of false memories would you plant and why?

Explanation / Answer

Part 2 : observational learning.

Based on bandura's study it was observed that a once believed idea that seeing others impart aggression , there is an increase in the aggressive drive. It was observed that even though there was no guns displayed in the modelling, the children who were given access to the aggressive modelling and rough language, did get inclined towards picking up the gun and also picked up the rough language very easily. Children who didn't have exposure to the aggressive modelling, did not pick up the gun.Also, it was seen that the children who were exposed to the aggressive modelling devised new ways of hitting the doll with the objects present in the room.

---> For me aggression and violence came from my parents have regular fights and arguments in most of the topics increasing as the time continued to pass. This had a passive impact on my psyche with me becoming a naturally angry and short tempered person and getting angry even at parents for one or the other thing. Aggression came with the family and now is something that people around me are wary of and support me in anger management.

---> If a child is living in a situation since childhood where he is witnessing constant tiffs and loud mouthed arguments and fights, the child is bound to get that frustration within himself. The same situation is mitigated if these argument and aggression episodes are witnessed at a slightly later age where the child has had some amount of development as to maybe compose himself and keep calm in such situations.

---> A child brought up in a tensed house hold is bound to have bouts of anger stored within oneself and that comes out on the peers in the form of anger or weak classmates in the form of bullying. Anger management in such cases will only be possible when the parents realise that their actions are having a fairly negative impact on the child's head and help him in becoming a calmer person.

Part 3:

Mnemonics are coding or acronyms designed by a person or individual himself so that he could remember a thing in an associative manner. This allows the brain to remember and retain that information in a more easy manner. Such mnemonics may be in the form of poems or acronyms or something else that helps a person remember something for a longer duration.

1. "Memory Needs Every Method Of Nurturing Its Capacity" is the mnemonic for mnemonic which acts as an acronym and helps remember the full form and understanding of the word.

2. VIBGYOR - helps a person remember the colours of rainbow in the correct order

3. The most famous mnemonic for remembering planets in the correct order :

"My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets" in the earlier days when Pluto was a planet.

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