What I Have Used From Psychology
I've always been interested and curious about Psychology. In Chapter 5, Learning and Cognition (or more so the Classical and Operant Conditioning) interested me the most. Who we are now is the direct result of how and what we learned as children. Learning is any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about through experience. Through our experiences in life, it teaches us new behaviors, attitudes, and skills. We also develop problem-solving strategies, and through learning we develop our personalities. Not all changes in behavior are the result of learning, but through the permanent changes. For example, if a quarter back on a football team throws the football differently because his coach or teammates has shown him a better way that is the result of learning. And if the quarterback continues to throw the ball in that way then a permanent change has occurred. The way we learn through life is by two basic ways of learning,......
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