Skinner Box

 While there are thousands of games out there that use the skinner box method to keep players paying a monthly subscription fee, one of the most notorious is World of Warcraft. In World of Warcraft there are several different systems to keep players paying the monthly fee that are targeted to a different gamer audience. With the hardcore gamers there are things called raids, where a number of players band together and go through dungeons in order to receive equipment that your character can utilize in game. The bosses that the players kill in each dungeon only drop a certain number of items, generally 3 to 4, and items are usable only by certain characters with bosses resetting every week, this acts a reward scheduler making sure players have a scheduled reward system so they don't get items too quickly, but also so they aren't waiting around forever to get new items. This kind of reward system gives players something to work towards and a sense of achievement when they finally get what they were after. The reset timer used keeps players from quickly farming the items they want and getting burned out on the game before more content can be released that offers an upgrade to the equipment the player has. The gear that they player receives acts as a positive reinforcement, giving them a goal to work towards and eventually a reward for spending time working towards it.

 Another aspect of the game, leveling, is a powerful secondary enforcer that is geared at turning the casual gamer into a hardcore gamer. Gaining levels is vital in World of Warcraft because the bulk of the game is only available to players who have reached the highest level. Gaining levels is something that the player quickly learns to be excited about, with the first few levels coming very quickly and after that very slowly to increase the amount of time the player must play. Many players spend all of their free time leveling a character so that they may reap the reward of hitting the final level and experiencing the rest of the game. Recently, World of Warcraft integrated an achievement system into the game, which rewards the player for doing tasks that are often time consuming and trivial. This is a more cut and dry achievement motivation than the other achievement motivations such as act of getting upgraded equipment.

 An example of a negative reinforcement from the game is the system of travel that the game utilizes. During the leveling system of WoW, the players unlock the ability to purchase faster methods of travel, thus giving the play another incentive to reach a higher level so that they can move from place to place faster than before.

remember the titans

in the movie Remember the Titans there were alot of examples of things that we have learned in psychology such as: social loafing, deindividuation, group polarization, obedience, and normative social influence. Social loafing is present when Julius wouldn't work hard at camp because everyone else was working hard and he didn't feel he needed to. deindividuation is present when Petey continuously fumbles the ball and keeps getting yelled at until put on defense. group polarization can be found at the beginning when Gary and Ray go up to coach Boone and try to tell him how to run his team because they feel more confident than by themselves. Obedience is seen through out the movie with how the team responds to the coaches and listens to them. normative social influence is seen mostly by Ray when he trys to stay the way he is and hate the black people because everyone else does and he doesn't want to change.

the colony

In the beginning the colonist seems to be more open to different ideas and they were willing to help people. When they first got there and they had supplies it wasn't necessary for them to go out and build things for food because they had food. They also saw people that were there and wanted food and gave up some of there own food. They were more open to people being there until they were attacked and that is when they realized that they needed protection. i believe that this is where they finally realized the situation they were in and how real it was. Over time the colonist worried more about food and protection more than hygiene and being conservative. They began breaking social norms by eating things out of what we would normally eat and not covering themselves as they normally would. They value things more than they normally would and take less risk knowing how scarce food is. When they see people they get weapons to protect themselves rather than allowing them near as they did before. They become more hostile and violent as the show progresses and they run out of food. They become egotistical and begin to care less about the others safety and more for there own. They have completely thrown out the social norms because of the situation they have been put in. Nature has conditioned them to go in when people come or when it ains and to fight hard to get food an s do what ever they can to survive

 In 1965, Janet Reimer gave birth to twin sons Bruce and Brian Reimer. Six months later, the boys went to the hospital to be circumcised and during the circumcision  Bruce’s penis was burned beyond repair. When his parents discovered this, they decided to call  a psychologist, John Money, who was close to perfecting gender reassignment and believed that gender identity was brought on by nurture not nature. they were convinced that Bruce would be better off as Brenda. they raised him as a girl with his twin bother. As time went on, Brenda and Brian would sometimes see Doctor Money apparently Doctor Money made them do inappropriate things and no one ever did anything about it.As Brenda got older, she was ridiculed and made fun of at school, because she was taller and more masculine than all of the other girls.she was still seeing Doctor Money as her psychologist he had told the public the experiment on Brenda was a success.The Reimer’s told Brenda the truth about his gender. Brenda decided that she wanted to live life as a boy and changed her name to David. Not only was David’s life affected by this, but it eventually caused his both sons to commit suicide. The main theory that was studied was nature verses nurture. Doctor Money wanted to show that a person’s nature, not nurture, determined a person’s gender. in doing this he did a lot of wrong by not telling Bruce about his gender and not telling his parents what was really going on. Doctor Money took advantage of the family because he knew that they were in a vulnerable state. The main theory studied in this film was social-cultural behavior. Money believed that if Bruce were to be raised as a girl and do things that girls wanted to do, then he would turn out as a girl. He most likely believed this because, for the most part, as people we do what society thinks is appropriate for our gender to do.Doctor Money was wrong to do as he did to the Rimer family.  No family deserves to be treated as David and his family were. Money's experiment was unethical and showed that you cannot raise a boy to be a girl because there are difference between them in many ways. through this story it is shown that boys can not be taught to be girls

the man who mistook his wife for a hat

In the story "The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" Dr. P's eyes were not messed up but the visual parts of his brain or the occipital lobes, were malfunctioning. however the temporal lobes seemed to be taking place of the occipital lobes in converting the sounds he was hearing into pictures or otherwise causing him to see. I think that the axon fibers were connected wrong and somehow substituted his occipital lobes for his temporal lobes. In "the lost mariner" he lost all of his memory after he got out the marines in 1945. I think that some damage was caused to his Hippocampus during the war causing his memory to be affected. severe damage must have been caused because his memory is so short term.