Conditioning & Cognitive Development: Pavlov & Piaget; Ionesco's The Lesson (day 1)
Lab:
Read the article on Piaget & Pavlov.
Watch the following crash course video on Classical Conditioning (Pavlov) & Operant Conditioning (Skinner)
As you watch the video and read the articles, define the following psychological terms to turn in by the end of period 1 as participation notes:
PROMPT: Reflect on what kind of parents raised you. Were you raised by authoritarian parents, permissive parents, or authoritative parents? Write an essay, scene, poem, or story using these observations as a conflict for your character. Alternatively, you can expand a story or poem you have written by blaming your characters actions on a parenting style. For more details about raising children, check out Monkeys & Morality (Crash Course)
PROMPT: Examining Erikson's stages of Progressive Psychosocial Development (see Adolescence Crash Course for details), identify what stage your protagonist might be having a crisis in and write about it. You can also write about these developmental stages from your own understanding of your own experiences (where are you, for example, in these stages...or where are your parents, friends, brothers/sisters, etc.?) Use what you learn as a way to flesh out characters in your previous drafts or stories. Or write a scene in which you mix up the stages: a pre-schooler who is dealing with integrity or stagnation, for example.
PROMPT: Examine the issue of aging.
PROMPT: Use Piaget's Four-Stage Theory of Cognitive Development (see The Growth of Knowledge crash course) to write a scene, poem, essay, or fictional story where characters are in conflict or different stages. Play around with these ideas in metaphorical or symbolic conflicts in your stories/poems. For example, you could psychoanalyze Trump's cognitive development in a political essay, or use these stages to reflect on your own experiences, or add conflict/characterization in your first drafts of stories or poems.
PROMPT: According to Piaget, "education should inspire people to create, invent, and innovate--discouraging them from conforming or following established guidelines at the expense of imagination." Inspired by this quote, create something. You might write an essay reflecting on your education experience, or suggest how the system failed you--or...whatever. Be innovative.
Period 2:
Writers often use psychology to write about important topics. You can too.
Eugene Ionesco, often called the father of absurdist theater, wrote his short play The Lesson trying to understand how otherwise good people could be conditioned to engage in violent or immoral activities. Is it our nature to be evil or is it because of our nurturing environments (or lack thereof) that allows evil actions to foster? Reacting to the atrocities of WWII, Ionesco wrote this comic tragedy in 1951. Let's take a look.
PROMPT: Use a psychological theory or idea and develop a monologue, scene, story, poem, essay, or short play around it.
HOMEWORK: Complete your reading of The Catcher in the Rye. As you read, apply what you have learned about psychology so far to Holden Caulfield's behavior in the novel. Take note of what you find. Use the theories of Pavlov, Piaget, Hall, Bandura, Leary, etc.
For example, examine how touch or attachment, imprinting, separation anxiety, exploration, stranger anxiety, reunion, Ainsworth's 4 categories of behavior, trust, Holden's sense of self or self-concept, self-image, self-recognition, or morality operates for Holden (Monkeys & Morality); Alternatively, you can examine Holden Caulfield's journey through adolescence and self-identity.
Watch: The Bobo Beatdown - Bandura (Crash Course)
Read the article on Piaget & Pavlov.
Watch the following crash course video on Classical Conditioning (Pavlov) & Operant Conditioning (Skinner)
As you watch the video and read the articles, define the following psychological terms to turn in by the end of period 1 as participation notes:
- Behaviorism
- Learning
- Associative learning
- Conditioning
- Acquisition
- Classical conditioning
- Operant conditioning
- Positive reinforcement
- Negative reinforcement
- Primary reinforcer
- Conditioned reinforcer
- Partial reinforcement
- Reinforcement schedule
- Extinction
- Cognitive processes
PROMPT: Reflect on what kind of parents raised you. Were you raised by authoritarian parents, permissive parents, or authoritative parents? Write an essay, scene, poem, or story using these observations as a conflict for your character. Alternatively, you can expand a story or poem you have written by blaming your characters actions on a parenting style. For more details about raising children, check out Monkeys & Morality (Crash Course)
PROMPT: Examining Erikson's stages of Progressive Psychosocial Development (see Adolescence Crash Course for details), identify what stage your protagonist might be having a crisis in and write about it. You can also write about these developmental stages from your own understanding of your own experiences (where are you, for example, in these stages...or where are your parents, friends, brothers/sisters, etc.?) Use what you learn as a way to flesh out characters in your previous drafts or stories. Or write a scene in which you mix up the stages: a pre-schooler who is dealing with integrity or stagnation, for example.
PROMPT: Examine the issue of aging.
PROMPT: Use Piaget's Four-Stage Theory of Cognitive Development (see The Growth of Knowledge crash course) to write a scene, poem, essay, or fictional story where characters are in conflict or different stages. Play around with these ideas in metaphorical or symbolic conflicts in your stories/poems. For example, you could psychoanalyze Trump's cognitive development in a political essay, or use these stages to reflect on your own experiences, or add conflict/characterization in your first drafts of stories or poems.
PROMPT: According to Piaget, "education should inspire people to create, invent, and innovate--discouraging them from conforming or following established guidelines at the expense of imagination." Inspired by this quote, create something. You might write an essay reflecting on your education experience, or suggest how the system failed you--or...whatever. Be innovative.
Period 2:
Writers often use psychology to write about important topics. You can too.
Eugene Ionesco, often called the father of absurdist theater, wrote his short play The Lesson trying to understand how otherwise good people could be conditioned to engage in violent or immoral activities. Is it our nature to be evil or is it because of our nurturing environments (or lack thereof) that allows evil actions to foster? Reacting to the atrocities of WWII, Ionesco wrote this comic tragedy in 1951. Let's take a look.
PROMPT: Use a psychological theory or idea and develop a monologue, scene, story, poem, essay, or short play around it.
HOMEWORK: Complete your reading of The Catcher in the Rye. As you read, apply what you have learned about psychology so far to Holden Caulfield's behavior in the novel. Take note of what you find. Use the theories of Pavlov, Piaget, Hall, Bandura, Leary, etc.
For example, examine how touch or attachment, imprinting, separation anxiety, exploration, stranger anxiety, reunion, Ainsworth's 4 categories of behavior, trust, Holden's sense of self or self-concept, self-image, self-recognition, or morality operates for Holden (Monkeys & Morality); Alternatively, you can examine Holden Caulfield's journey through adolescence and self-identity.
Watch: The Bobo Beatdown - Bandura (Crash Course)
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