Saturday, March 19, 2011

Opening Skinner's Box Full Post

Opening Skinner's Box was an interesting collection of several classic psychological experiments of the last century. These studies showed some of the greatest revelations of behavior that they changed how we perceived ourselves and each other. Some of them allowed us to figure out that memory was not how we thought it was, the idea of authority and how people deal with it, etc. Each separate chapter dealt with a different case and explained the importance of the results and how they came to these conclusions.

I loved this book the most out of all of our readings so far. The psychology aspect intrigues me on a basic level and I love learning all I can about these different experiments that are being performed in the past and the future. They allow all of us to break free from the thinking that something is unknowable and has an aire of magic into something that is knowable and helps us explain further other things if possible.

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