Ap Psychology Book Review

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This book covers some psychological perspectives, among those perspectives my favorite was the Behavior Learning perspective, more detailed, The B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning. I like this perspective because I found some inside about what punishment and reinforment are and how to manage it better. This perspective explains how we can change behavior by the use of reinforcement which is given after the desired response. The three types of responses followed by the behavior were: The Neutral responses that neither increase nor decrease the probability of a behavior being repeated. The Reinforcers which increase the probability of a behavior being repeated. In addition, the Reinforcers can be either positive or negative, the Positive reinforcement …show more content…

Each one of them had something that interested me and I like, for example Psychoanalytic perspective talks about how human behavior is the result of the id, ego, and superego. Which is something that make sense for me. For this, I am unable to choose a least favorite because I like each perspective and there is no least favorite. Question #4 Thinking a couple of years back, maybe 2 years back, I remember taking statistic and anatomy. I do remember many of the things that I learned from statistic class, it was very interesting and helpful. On the other hand, I don’t remember much about my anatomy class, I don’t really think it means that I didn’t learn much. The reason to this is because I may not remember many of the names or terms, but I do remember the concept of the things. If I start talking about the bones, I may not get all correct but I can tell about the placement and other thing about it. We all have different way to relate thing, even if we don’t remember terms, or many of things, our brain still has it and once we find it, we will be able to use it and we may have to review the material, but at the end, even if we don’t remember much, we did learn something and beneficiated from the

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