yes, question psychology as a science, it's just young, but fuck you, it ain't bullshit. is it?
I'm going to give this conditioning thing a try.
I'm going to do what I ought to do and study and work hard (I think... my norm is very skewed), and if I do reasonably well, I will buy myself these shoes.
Maybe by the end of the next round of midterms, these shoes will be on sale... Hm...
Behavior (get good grades) --> reward (shoes)
that is operant conditioning... right?
i didn't know the difference between operant and classical conditioning like i should have all four years ago until last week when we took a quiz and i sat there on a tricky question and thought about the examples they teach in every single psych class (behavioral, cognitive?, personality, intro, social, abnormal, blah blah blah) and i got the question right!
psych 100 was not so fun because it was a whole lot of little things to remember... that sucked. psych 201 sucked because i didn't pay any attention in class and ehh... i don't really remember it, but it also had a lot of little things to remember... i don't like abnormal psych right now because it is the same.
conclusion: lower level classes suck in comparison to more specialized classes. unless it's math. i don't think math was ever really not specialized, though. not as far as i'm aware... but i haven't taken any real higher level math courses.
i find it rather tiring to constantly be asked to question what we learn in these psych classes, though. everything we learn, the teacher asks us what is wrong or good about the experiments and whether we think it is good enough to prove this or that. and i know that this type of critical thinking is really important and everyone should have this skill even though most people don't have it... but why can't they teach us something certain once in awhile, like math and physics! *weep*
I'm going to do what I ought to do and study and work hard (I think... my norm is very skewed), and if I do reasonably well, I will buy myself these shoes.
Maybe by the end of the next round of midterms, these shoes will be on sale... Hm...
Behavior (get good grades) --> reward (shoes)
that is operant conditioning... right?
i didn't know the difference between operant and classical conditioning like i should have all four years ago until last week when we took a quiz and i sat there on a tricky question and thought about the examples they teach in every single psych class (behavioral, cognitive?, personality, intro, social, abnormal, blah blah blah) and i got the question right!
psych 100 was not so fun because it was a whole lot of little things to remember... that sucked. psych 201 sucked because i didn't pay any attention in class and ehh... i don't really remember it, but it also had a lot of little things to remember... i don't like abnormal psych right now because it is the same.
conclusion: lower level classes suck in comparison to more specialized classes. unless it's math. i don't think math was ever really not specialized, though. not as far as i'm aware... but i haven't taken any real higher level math courses.
i find it rather tiring to constantly be asked to question what we learn in these psych classes, though. everything we learn, the teacher asks us what is wrong or good about the experiments and whether we think it is good enough to prove this or that. and i know that this type of critical thinking is really important and everyone should have this skill even though most people don't have it... but why can't they teach us something certain once in awhile, like math and physics! *weep*