Rethink Question Chapter 6 Module 19

1)   There are two different learning styles, one is the relational learning style and the other one is the analytical learning style. In the relational learning style people learn the whole first and then little parts, whereby in the analytical learning style people learn first the smaller fundamental parts of something before they learn the whole. The analytical style is more often used in western schools but I think that schools could also work in a relational style. Even though the relational style is not that common it would work in schools in which students are doing a lot of experiments or games to learn. A student has to understand the whole purpose first before he or she can start an experiment or game. In some cases analytical learning is necessary, because the little parts have to get learned first. An example for analytical learning is the learning of golf, because it is not possible that somebody who does not know how to hit a golf ball is able to play a 18 hole golf course.

 

2)   When I would be a social worker I would give an advice to parents that violent media and video games can cause aggression by their children.  When children are playing these violent video games or watch violent media they get used to the violence and learn to think that the world is violent. After they get used to the violence they start to act aggressive, because they think it is normal to act aggressive like the characters in the violent video games or the media do. Because children learn a lot by imitation they try to copy the characters from the movies and the games, which are usually aggressive and use violence. Certainly it is hard for parents to control what movies their children are watching and what games they are playing, but it is important that they keep to look at it because it can have serious affects on their children.

Rethink Questions Chapter 6 Module 18

1)   Punishment is certainly a method to rear children even it is not always the most successful one. Also Punishment can be divided two different kinds, which are Positive Punishment and Negative Punishment.  Positive punishment works by adding something to a person, like yelling at somebody, whereby negative punishment is removing something, like taking the teenagers car keys. Both methods are certainly important by child rearing, because they are decreasing the behavior of people to do something.  Even Punishment works well in short time reinforcement is a better way to rear somebody over long time. I would suggest reinforcement to parents, because it is better for the psyche of their children, because the are learning how to deal with things on a positive way and not on a aggressive way in which they get punished. The problems with punishment are that people learn to see the world in an aggressive way that makes them aggressive.

 

2)   When I would be a teacher and would have to make students make their homework more often I would use a kind of reinforcement. It is more likely that students make their homework, when they receive positive reactions on their work, then getting yelled at if they are not doing it. When a teacher always punishes a student for not doing homework the student tend to do less homework because he or she does not feel sympathy to the teacher and does not want to do work for the teacher. This is different when a teacher is using reinforcement, because the student gets positive feedback the student tends to do the homework more often, to get more positive feedback from the teacher. I would use partial reinforcement schedule instead of a continuous one, because then students do not always get a reaction to their work and will work more harder to get a good respond.

 

 

Chapter 6 Rethink questions Module 17

1)   It is very likely that Little Albert recovered from his experience of fear of white fluffy material. Because the one basic phenomena of learning, Extinction, Albert learned over time that he does not has to fear from the white fluffy things like the Santa Claus beard. He will be learn that not everything which looks like a whit rat is bad it could even be possible that he will learn not to fear rats. But even he got used to the white and fluffy objects and does not fear it anymore, he will sometimes get remembered of his extinguished fear, because of an effect called spontaneous recovery. This effect of spontaneous recovery will make him remember his fear as a young boy and will make him scared.

 

2)   Classical Conditioning can be used very effective in advertisements, because it makes people think about something they usually would not think of in this moment. An example is the big golden M which people see when they pass a McDonalds, whenever someone passes this golden M he or she thinks about eating a burger and fries, because they learned over time that McDonalds offers these products and that they taste very well. Because of classical conditioning people learned over time what a sign or special sound in a commercial means and thinks about the product the company wants to sell. I do not think that in commercial any ethnical issues could occur, but if it certainly has consequences as we saw in the case little Albert.