Reflection On Interpreting The World

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Interpreting the World: A Reflection on Psychology Monika Rabjohn Nazareth College of Rochester Interpreting the World: A Reflection on Psychology Van Voorst stated “Every understanding of our new experiences is made in light of an understanding that we already had going into the new experiences,” (2015). Therefore one’s reality is dictated by how an individual has been affected by the world and how they then interpret it. It is our internal cognitive evaluations which determine how we express our relationship to a stimuli through our behavior. Studying learning and conditioning, behavior in society, and emotion allows one to evaluate how different individuals determine beneficial or unbeneficial behavior, become affected by society, and react to external and internal stimuli. Learning and Conditioning Children are constantly growing and interpreting information. How we learn and are conditioned influences what we determine to be useful behavior or worthless behavior . One type is classic conditioning which is the association of a stimuli and a specific response (Wade, Tavris, & Garry, 2014). For example a dog will salivate if presented …show more content…

Children can often be seen modeling adults by observing and imitating their actions (2014). This can encourage both prosocial and antisocial behavior as seen with Bandura 's “Bobo Doll” experiment (2014). This experiment consisted of children being exposed to a doll, one group immediately interacted with it and the other group interacted only after watching an adult punch, kick, and hit it with objects (2014). The first group interacted with the doll positively, while the second mirrored the adult by showing violence towards the doll (2014). Therefore, observational learning may have negative influences if a child is consistently exposed to violent, antisocial, or discriminative

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