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The Ways I Learn Have Learned, Think & Reason and DemonstrateAs I reread this topic several times and tried to bring it to life to write an intelligent paper on it, I had to search my memory for the actions that made me think, learn, act and react. So, I took a trip down memory lane and thought back to my childhood and started thinking of my elementary school days, high school days, military days, right on through to raising my children and now attempting college myself. What a trip! I'm not sure if I am learning anything or if I just keep going to see where I will wind up. At any rate, I will try to apply all these things into this paper as well as where I relate it in the book "Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology". (Your comment here on perhaps people should keep a learning journal; I am totally in agreement to this idea as it would be so helpful in later years.)Learning has many forms, of them I believe that repetition is a common form, I do something over and over again and I do it wrong a few times, am told of my mistakes and how to correct them, then go back to repeat the process correctly, eventually I will do it properly, then I can say I have mastered a new feat. A good example of this would
There is an old adage that states; when you want to get something done, 'dangle a carrot' meaning offer something of motivational value as a reward to get whatever it is you want an individual to do. Another method of learning that goes along with repetition is association, Pavlov (Hilgard p 228) studied how dogs react to stimulus, in offering a dog food when a light was on, when the room was dark, there was no food. I relate this to the 3 stages of memory: encoding, storage and retrieval. The dog now has a conditioned response. I'd get up off the sidewalk, road, or whatever I landed on and repeat the process again and again, until I was able to do it without falling and even got brave and tried with no hands, (not a good idea when you are a beginner). We internally hear all the negatives regarding smoking, but we see our friends saying "just come on, do it". In just smelling the food, the dog had a response; he would salivate making his response an unconditioned one. As an adult learning to ride a bicycle is a much more difficult procedure, we aren't as prepared to take the physical spills a child can endure, therefore, it is much more frightening to an adult to master bicycle riding. It is our academic intelligence that allows us to know the correct answers to scholastic and trivia related quandaries, and our common sense that advise us of right from wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Young children watch the adults and other children around them. Meaning it is easy to monitor book smarts through IQ testing, but street smarts and common sense are much harder to provide researched studies on, seeing they are individual traits. When they see aggressive behavior as a constant in certain situations, they will tend to react in the same manner, when in the same situation. It is believed by many psychologists that there are multiple intelligences and that current tests only tap at the surface and register primarily academic intelligence as opposed to practical intelligence.
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