In order to keep an up-to-date and relevant list of all the research I am doing for my Extended Major Project I have decided to keep a blog.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Maps
Research on maps within info graphics
More on memory loss
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Memories
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Blind spot test
Monday, January 31, 2011
The Brain
After tutorial
The Shock Doctorine
The Memory Theif
Human Testing
Model Therapy
“One’s environment causes one’s behaviour”
Albert Bandura, another psychiatrist who also believed that behaviour causes environment too.
This concept is called reciprocal determinism.
Bandura carried out experiments called
The Bobo Doll studies in 1961-3. The experiment involved showing children a video of a young woman beating up an inflatable clown doll; shouting aggressive words and hitting it with a hammer. When the children were let into the same room with the same doll in it, they imitated exactly what they had seen. Variations of these tests allowed Bandura to establish the steps involved in the modeling process.
Attention
To learn anything you have to be paying attention. Therefore being sleepy, groggy, drugged, sick or nervous decreases learning. If the model is colourful and dramatic, you will pay attention.
If the model is attractive and seems more like yourself you will pay more attention.
Retention
Must be able to remember. Imagery and language are therefore very important.
Reproduction
You have to translate the images or describitions into behaviour. But you have to have the ability to do this in the first place.
Motivation
You won’t do anything unless you have some reason for you doing it.
Here is the original footage of Bandura's Bobo Doll experiments:
John Watson
Classical conditioning:
“A process of behaviour modification by which a subject comes to respond in a desired manner to a previously neutral stimulus that has been recently presented along with an unconditional stimulus that elicits the desired response.”
‘Classical Conditioning’ - this is the psychological term given to Watsons idea that emotional reactions can be classically conditioned in people. Learning occurs through interactions with the environment. ‘The environment shapes behaviour.’ Watson’s experiments raises huge ethical concerns. They would not be able to be conducted by todays standards.
The Brain:a secret history.
‘Dr Michael Mosley explores the brutal history of experimental psychology.’
The psychiatrist John Watson carried out tests on an 8 month old baby. The experiment is known as the Little Albert Experiment. The tests showed that via use of repeated objects and by being scared by a loud sound, one can learn to fear the object. Hence you can make a person phobic.
Watson also carried out tests on a monkey, to test the love a monkey feels towards its mother. This resulted in finding out that ‘fear tests the bond’ and that we all need close, physical contact.
The Bandura experiment resulted in realising that a child will copy an adult if they are behaving aggressively. This idea of children copying what they see is evident today in TV and video games.