miércoles, 24 de noviembre de 2010

John B. Watson

1) The "Little Albert" was exposed to rats and he reacted normally. Then the rat was associated with a bell and little albert was scared when he saw the rat or any white animal.
2)The conditional was the white rat. the unconditional was the noise and the conditional response was when "little Albert" cried
3) The limitation was there was only one child in the expiriment and the expiriment can not be replicated.
4)Law of Frequency is "the more often two things or events are linked, the more powerful will be that association."
5)law of recency is the reaction of the stimulus that just occured.
6) The behaviors can be reduced to the start.
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/psychbeginnings.html

martes, 23 de noviembre de 2010

Ivan Pavlov

1) Pavlov was studing the salivation of dogs. He saw that when he ringed the bell and then gave the dog food, when he repeated it many times the dog could associate the sound of the bell with the food. The dog started to salivate.
2) Pavlov concluded behavior to determain classical conditioning with the dogs and its salivation. It's stimulus when the bell rang, The dog salivated more than usual.
3)"The process whereby dogs or humans learn to connect a stimulus to a reflex is called conditioning."Stimulus response " is a theoretical model of behavioral psychology that suggests humans and other animals can learn to associate a new stimulus." "unconditioned stimulus" is used in the theory of classical conditioning to refer to a stimulus that automatically and unconditionally elicits a response. Unconditional stimulus is is used in the theory of classical conditioning to refer to a stimulus that automatically and unconditionally elicits a response.
4)Classical Conditioning and exticion are related they mean: two or more thing that happen at the same time.
5)Stimulus Generalization and classical conditioning have a relation because they both have a stimulus to relate a similar condition.
6)Stimulus Discrimination is related with Classical Conditioning because both have to do with the study of human behavior.
7) Two limitations that Pavlov expiriment is it alter the cellerlary gland and it is not easy to reconstruct the expiriment.
8) Pavlov theorized that we learned by associating things with others. We do this by survival

miércoles, 3 de noviembre de 2010

"Why Does Lack of Sleep Affect Us Differently? Study Hints It May Be in Our Genes"

Narcolepsy is a disease were you are sleepy in the day. It is carries by a gene."This gene may be a biomarker for predicting how people will respond to sleep deprivation, which has significant health consequences and affects millions of people around the world." This is a disease that no many people have it. The outcome of the Narcolepsy is  they do not sleep to much in the night and "lower sleep drive." People with this disorder sleep the same in day as others at night. They all give the same attention as people without the disease do. The only thing that varies is the time of the day they sleep. 


American Academy of Neurology. "Why Does Lack of Sleep Affect Us Differently? Study Hints It May Be in Our Genes." ScienceDaily, 25 October 2010. Web. 3 November 2010. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161023.htm>.

"Being A Night Owl In High School Is Linked With Lower College GPA"

When you have a poor sleep you have poor performance, meaning that when you do not sleep well or sleep to little you may not get the grades that you wanted because your brain is not working at it's full potential. You can see this in your GPA, if you put all your effoft you can get a high score. If you do not sleep well and do not do yout best then your GPA will be affected as well. We should all have a good sleep hygiene to preforme well and obtain the best. Lets not damage our brain and grades because we do not want to sleep early.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine. "Being A Night Owl In High School Is Linked With Lower College GPA." ScienceDaily, 11 June 2009. Web. 3 November 2010. <http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2009/06/090609072813.htm>.

"Starting High School One Hour Later May Reduce Teen Traffic Accidents"

When teens sleep less then eight hours there weeknight increases every time. The average amount of sleep during weekend, they start getting at least 9 hours sleep. When the average sleep in teens is 8 hours. Teens crash increase over time because of the little sleep they are getting. The daytime sleep increases and more accidents occur because our body is asking for sleep. The most common crashes rate are from country crash.
"It is surprising that high schools continue to set their start times early, which impairs learning, attendance and driving safety of the students," said senior author Barbara Phillips, MD, director of the UK Healthcare Good Samaritan Sleep Center in Lexington, Ky.
"The authors report that both social and biological pressures appear to cause a shift in sleep patterns during the transition to adolescence, with the result that adolescents stay up progressively later." As a result the daytime sleep increases.
Teens should sleep well to have a better production of work and make it better quality. Teens should sleep 8 hours and decrease the chance of having a crash because they did not get enough sleep. Also to take precaution and if they know they are not in the condition to drive then wait till you'll ready.

Reduce Teen Traffic Accidents." ScienceDaily, 17 December 2008. Web. 3 November 2010. <http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2008/12/081215074351.htm>.