After doing the project and the readings i'm noticing just how easy conditioning is. for example food poisoning
When my parents were pregnant with me they went to hardees and got horrible food poisoning. since then they haven't gone to hardees. The only had 1 association moment and they were conditioned. or with operant conditioning. take a look at the freshmen. they drink, they screw, they swear and they all get away with it. Their parents were probably reinforcing the 'bad' behavior by giving in to the child's plees. or also 1 of the side effects of punishments. it is possible that the children learned discrimination. 'Hey I can't drink, smoke, screw fight or swear at home but maybe i can do that in... my neighbor's car! or a bus station, or a park, or school...' ect.
I am just amazed at how fast people in general can be conditioned. I mean heck my example with me wrestling doug. I learned to stay away from him pretty quickly.
And as for the project. I recommend that you all get started soon because you might find out tha you have more work than you originally planned (this happened to me)
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I wrote about this in my blog as well. I think it's just shocking how quickly people are conditioned, most of the time without even knowing it. Like when i want to do something with friends or leave the house I automatically know to go to my room and pick up my clothes, and that's exactly what I do because I know that I wont be able to do anything unless that's taken care of because thats the first thing my mom asks me haha. it's amazing what people are capable of without even knowing it.
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