darknoe55 Don't even start. Being a clown is a DISGUSTING lifestyle choice. Nobody is born a clown! Lev. 18:22 "You shall not lie with several men in a tiny car; it is an abomination"
As a college student I really wish I that my classes actually taught more in a 2 1/2 hour class that crash course does in half the time. I'm literally learning more watching this than paying for a 40 hour course.
I'm assuming you're in your first 2 years because this only teaches the very basic principles. This series will not supplant the modules of a credible degree.
We just discovered a bit of this by accident last week! Our five-month-old was being fussy in her car seat and since I couldn't pick her up for loves I started comforting one of her toys, a corduroy kitty. She loved it! I kissed, hugged and pet the toy then handed it to her and she mimicked the behavior. She was all smiles at the game till she dozed off.
My mom always built me up and tried to give me a good self esteem but I grew up watching her treat herself like garbage. It was a while before I realized that to me seeing how she treated her self had a much more profound effect on the way I treated myself then all the things she told me. Do as I say and not as I do doesn't really work so be careful what you let little kids see. Next time you're dogging on yourself or saying you look fat yada yada yada look around and see if there are any children around and think about the next generation.
My dog once choked on his food real bad. Next time we fed him he smelled his food and wouldn't eat it. We had to buy a new flavor of food for him so he could eat again. True story. :-P
x Broskee No. it's an example of operant conditioning. Classical conditioning means relating two unrelated things transitively. Operant conditioning has more to do with cause and effect. I may be wrong though.
That pretty much explains why spanking/shouting at your children is really stupid. Not only are you teaching them really inappropriate behaviour for any sort of social interaction. You've also deprived them of learning appropriate ways to resolve conflicts.
Kelan Barr It's really interesting--Skinner himself vehemently disapproved of the use of punishment from both a moral and a pragmatic standpoint. Further studies have found ways of making punishment a more effective means of controlling behavior, but it has to be implemented very, very carefully to work well, and there are always ethical considerations.
It actually depends. The general rule is that rewards work better than punishment but there are times where it's better to lay down a woopin on dat ass.
As an adolescent who was spanked as a child, I would have to object to your position. I'm not saying that it's not bad, but as I grew I started to realize that it was just discipline. I am the kind of kid who found loopholes through my parent's punishments. I enjoy thinking to myself in my room thus making it not so much of punishment but more of a reward. If they made me do chores, I would do them as fast as possible so I wouldn't have to do more and I'd be back to being myself. My parents would always give me a lecture before the spanking so I knew why they were gonna do it and how it's going to teach me a lesson. They told me that they spanked me, not because they enjoyed it or that it's what's gonna happen every time I do something wrong, but because they want me to behave myself in the future. I grew up never associating physical pain with doing something wrong. I personally believe I am more disciplined and well behaved because of the way they disciplined me. I know when to mess around and when to stop. I grew to have a moral standard (when most of society lacks such a thing). So yeah...it depends.
I find if you have to instill fear in your children with physical violence to teach them a lesson something isn't working. Setting rules with kids and following through with them (VERY IMPORTANT. I have a younger sibling who gets away with a lot because my step-dad is strict well my mom is more laid back. So she'll act differently in front of them.) is much more effective. Telling them this is what's going to happen if you do this works 9/10 times. When I babysit them I follow this and it works usually (the one who gets away with stuff is the one who has trouble with it. My parents don't do this so it's like she's having different types of parenting styles). A good example I explained they each have three strikes. The first time-out they go for however old they are and with every strike, after that, they have another minute added to the time-out. After three strikes they go to bed. They didn't act out once (which is rare) and it was a good time.
You can't discuss the Bobo experiments without also discussing their flaws. For one thing, the fact that children are affected by what's expected of them factors in. Famously, one kid was heard saying to its mother when brought to the experimentation facility "look mom, there's the doll we're supposed to beat." :P Also, although social learning may have been a revolution in psychology at the time, these days the Bobo experiments are still being used to prove the effects on children of all kinds of quite unrelated things, like violent media inspiring violence in otherwise healthy kids. There's a big difference between mimicking someone punching a doll, and punching an actual person.
What was even stranger was that they also imitated aggression of a cartoon animal beating up Bobo and were more likely to do so than live models. Our brains are we weird.
People learn to acquire behaviors by observing others but also learn to avoid behaviors by observing others. When observing somebody doing something that results in an unpleasant consequence we learn to avoid doing what that person has done. This was a good segment. Hank would have received an A in my course on this material.
I'm taking AP Psychology, and my exam is in 7 days. No pressure XD Although the videos go relatively slow IMO from one topic to the next, Hank does explain each subject quite thoroughly.
My Psych AP uses your crash courses as an introduction to every unit, I laugh at your every pun and for the tests I only need to rewatch your videos, you're awesome Hank, you should keep making these videos .
In this episode of CrashCourse Psychology, ***** talks about how we learn by observation... and how that can mean beating the tar out of an inanimate clown named Bobo. The Bobo Beatdown - Crash Course Psychology #12
So then are mirror neurons why it "hurts" when you see someone else get kicked in the nuts? Or also why you get that same feeling when watching a favorite sports team make big plays?
That sorta response is the general idea behind mirror neurons, yes. I personally think it's related to why we yawn when we see others yawn; it's all a empathic/sympathetic response. It makes sense for social animals, which includes chimps and humans.
Jack Thompson is a living testament to the fact that people don't imitate violent video games and other media. He's tried to ban several rap songs, most of the Grand Theft Auto series, Bully, Manhunt, and Mortal Kombat. He's also blamed several school shootings on games such as Doom, Wolfenstein, Quake, MechWarrior, and Resident Evil; including the Virginia Tech shooting before anything was even known about the shooter. If people imitated violent video games, he'd have been the first person they all would have gone after. Yet, as of writing this, he still lives.
Yet people don't worry about violent movies for some reason. Could this be.....potentially fueled by a political agenda to blame videogames for violence so politicians can ignore inconvenient facts about socio-economic problems and (in the US) poor gun regulations? I dunno, you be the judge.
Afro Samurai Socio-economic problems, yes. Poor gun regulations, no. As with video games, there is no correlation between availability of guns and violent crime. Many of the nations with gun bans that have lower violent crime rates had similarly low rates before their gun bans were implemented, and the change was negligible. This only strengthens the argument that the vast difference between the violent crime rates in different nations is a result of socio-economic policies.
Ron Burgundy Actually there is a correlation between gun availability and violent crime, just not a strong correlation (it's pretty weak actually). Anyway, I've seen plenty of NRA representatives and (republican) politicians point their fingers at videogames as the cause for violent crimes, because they know that the people overwhelmingly support gun regulations. Things like universal background checks are popular even amongst the members of the NRA. Sadly enough the gun manufacturers don't like the idea of selling less, so they lobby some corrupt politicians to do their biddings. I'm not saying that guns are the main factor or even a major factor behind violent crimes. I'm saying that gun supporting politicians run with the anti-gaming rhetoric as a form of distraction.
***** That only works if people have the right guidance. A lot of parents are buying games for 12/13 year olds that are meant for people much older. And of course if they're irresponsible enough to do that I can't expect them to sit down and explain to their children that violence is wrong. I personally don't think violent games in general are a problem. But I think allowing people who are too young to fully understand them could be a problem. Then again, bad parenting is always going to be a problem.
This may sound strange, but as this series goes on I like it more and more. It is getting into aspects of psychology that I had forgotten (I took my last class in the subject more than 10 years ago). The freshness to the ideas warms my mind.
just had a thought. create a bunch of mazes with 10 male mice outside and 5 female mice in heat in the middle of the maze. The mice that make it to the center of the maze first have a higher chance at reproducing, which will lead to children with better cognitive mapping skills. perhaps this could lead to mice that could travel through very unknown terrain and help help people get out of lost locations such as cave ins
And many many generations later we will have super mice who will first fight for the Pentagon and then will enslave the human population and finally will conquer the galaxy.
I feel you, exam of ''Psychology - history and application'' tomorrow. well I guess that related videos are better that just random ones haha. I hope your exam went well
It's interesting, that I have learned the exact contents of almost all episodes so far in a socialization class. That just shows how interdisciplinary most sciences are. Good job, it refreshes my memory.
this episode reminds me of my favourite evil parenting technique: putting ipecac in junk food the first time your kid eats it. after they throw up they won't want that junk food anymore. having taken ipecac after eating toadstools as a kid has made me never want to eat mushrooms again. don't actually do this btw. it's incredibly cruel and may lead to terrible side effects.
This entire crash course series is absolutley amazing. I'm taking an introductory psychology course and I keep returning to this series to reinforce and better explain concepts from the textbook.
That moment when the Bible confirmed observational learning, when it said "train the way a child should live and he will not depart from it" and "evil communications corrupt good manners."
I do modelling and imitating all the time since i was a kid...i started it cause it felt good to imitate arrow or batman... And now i started to think that i was crazy but now i know.. That's the reason i started making good deductions after watching sherlock, having perfect form while shadow boxing etc.
This in unrelated to the video, but I was just talking about the greek philosopher Plato, and I accidentally called him "Platato". My brother laughed so hard.
Fun fact about the Bobo doll study: it was criticized for not being representative of real-life situations because people figured kids probably wouldn't treat a real person like that, so Bandura did another version of the study using a real clown and some of the kids tried to beat him up too. The more you know.
Periodically through out a conversation, I'll nod and say small words to assure the person that I'm listening. During a conversation where my mom and I listened to the same person speak, without realizing it, we both began to nod and murmur in the same pattern. It was kind of hilarious since we probably looked like bobble heads, and this was the first time I ever noticed.
I've been a long time Vlogbrother's fan and have loved the success of crashcourse! I am quite excited that I've finally been instructed to watch some crashcourse as part of an assignment for grad school :) Watching this as prep for our unit on Social Cognitive Theory in Public Health Promotion! Thanks Hank!
So, I have been following this series. And, I have an issue with Psychology now. That being mostly dead guys having been given credit for advancing our understanding of ourselves. You ever watched someone sleep (a lover perhaps)? You can tell that they have different levels of mental activity while asleep just by observation. And, if you have a kid or siblings, you know kids can learn by imitating and can be conditioned to behave according to what is expected of them. We don't know these things because some people agreed it existed at some point. We know it because we have lived. These are entertaining...But yopu have not told me anything I didn't already know or couldn't have figured out just from being a person and being around other people.
And yet in the past people thought we went to other realms in their dreams, and people thought certain classes of people were bred for certain jobs. The history of psychology is not as simple as you make out.
Sorry for double post. But the point of the studies these guys did in the past was to scientifically with data prove that people did indeed learn through conditioning and that the brain went into different states so that that when someone else said something like, "No! emotions happen in the heart muscle." They could turn around and say , "Well I did 10 years of studying this 500 sample size of people that says you're talking crap."
You make it sound like Psychology has enlightened us and gotten rid of a lot of silly archaic ideas. The thing is it totally hasn't. I live in the bay area near Santa Cruz. So, I can tell you that for a fact. You don't have to go far around here to find people who believe in astral projection, supernatural powers guiding them, and even that many are predisposed to being a certain way. They will even use that facts science gives us to support their claims. Accepting the how but still questioning the why. And, Psychology seems to me like a science that mostly tries to prove the why and then asks others to back them up with the how. So I don't trust it. You know what I do trust? This book I got on my shelf called minerals and how to study them by E.S. Dana. It doesn't matter that it's from 1895. I look up any of the information in this book online. And it's the same information. Nothing has changed with it. Granted a few new things are known. But, I've yet to find that any of the existing information has become untrue over time. But, what Psychologists think and say about how we behave and why. What is agreed upon about that seems like it changes a lot. Wikia any of these guys and you will see a ton of stuff. debunk this, not accepted because of the methods that. shoddy work the other thing. dis-proven by so and so....hell Freud was doing lines! And, some of these guys were readily popping acid. But, what they have to say is totally valid and we knew nothing about our selves, before these drug addicts who frequently flew in the face of any idea of human rights, and couldn't be bothered to shave for a photo opt enlightened us...sure.
You can say that about many things. Many people also don't trust in physics, chemistry or biology. That doesn't mean that those things haven't been enlightening. Psychology is in some ways the most difficult science, which is why I would never study it (I prefer physics where things have more solid answers). I say it's difficult because there is no such thing as 100% objective answers in psychology. There are not measuring instruments or measurable results. For some people that is enough to say psychology is full of crap. But I'd say while it may not be as rigorous as the "hard sciences" it is still the best tool available against the nonsense of astrology, and healing the mentally ill with crystal healing. I cannot really think of any other tools we use to measure the mind that grapple with things like schizophrenia, autism, or PTSD.
Yeah, it seems logical- for you. Your education allowed for this observations to be made, and you were not fed other conclusions that would prevent you from reaching your own. That wasn't the case 100 years ago.
I recently read about a study where they would have a teacher play a game either generously or selfishly, and then would either preach that the children should play generously or not. The children were then asked to play the game themselves and observed, this was repeated 3 months later. The children who observed the teacher being generous, no surprise here, behaved generously whether or not the teacher preached to be generous, and were not generous when the teacher was not generous. The real interesting thing was that when they came back again a period later then group of children who continued to be the most generous were the group that had watched the teacher be generous, but NOT heard the teacher tell them to be generous. So I guess the conclusion from that study is that children "do what you do, but not what you say"
Hey! If you ever do a second crash course psychology course when you mention studies in passing can you please include the name of the researcher because for a lot of UK exam boards it is A LOT easier to get credit for mentioning the name of the researcher(s) when talking about it. Thank you :)
Hey Hank, can you make a video about the mental effects of abuse? I know a few people who have had rough pasts (sibling abuse or physical/emotional abuse) and I want to know how if effects them emotionally and the way they think now as adults. That way I can better understand where they are coming from and help them :)
This is why I believe sociology is something everyone one should take into consideration when trying to understand the way people act and how it effects how we think and perceive as a whole.
When I was 12 I got the bug after a night at a Chinese restaurant. I couldn't even smell Chinese without feeling sick for more than a decade. Today I'll eat it to be polite, and with no problems, but it's still something I don't go out of my way to buy.
Really wish that Hank used the word "vicarious" a more times around.The George Bernard Shaw wrote, “Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”-.George Bernad Shaw quote has a different sense given to it now that I think about vicarious learning Though I REALLY appreciate how he said that we learn and get a lot of the pop culture we have thru modeling.
This might be the first time I really want to comment something about a channel. Damn boy! this is my favorite channel, it has videos about everything! biology, history, psychology... EVERYTHING! I even have the app on my phone. :) thanks for making these videos!
Would the purpose of "Mirror Neurons" be to encourage people to do things, so like a long time ago maybe if one caveman saw another caveman eating newly hunted food, he would go out and want to hunt for food despite the dangers? Just wondering. Thoughts anyone?
You have to go deeper. Since birds and other mammals have the same mirror neurons, they would have had to develop much earlier than at the caveman stage.
These vids are great, I'm currently sitting my A level in psychology and resitting my AS, since it's been a year since I looked at anything for my AS exams, this really sums up a lot in a short period of time. Great recap of what I did last year, and great revision material :)
i was just thinking about this this morning. It sickens me every time i watch some idiot traumatizing his or her children for stuff that wasnt even their fault. There nothing worse than that their cognitive development.....if you show them the norm is being stupid they WILL copy it. Dont punish the kid when it's your fault for never teaching her how to grab a glass cup filled with cool water (which became slippery because of condensation). It was so stupid...I kindly taught her to grab it with both hands so that it wouldn't slip and she instantly learned it and never did it again.....and all her mother did was treat her as if she were stupid or something that couldnt be helped instead of what i did. Those things make me feel so bad. Poor kids.... I dont believe everyone is born a genius but with the right parents anyone can be an idiot.
I work with people with dementia and find its so much quicker to get someone to stand up if you sit down next to them and then stand up while phrasing “ok and we’re standing”, instead of just asking. Same with teeth brushing and things like that. 🙂
CrashCourse is amazing! I wish more people had the creativity and inspiration (and strength to start from the bottom and work their way up) produce such fenomenal edu videos. Wish I had this as a help while in high school... The people that help you financially on subbable really are doing more good then they can imagine :D
VERY ENTERTAINING AND INFORMATIVE- Wish it would have been a little slower, (not so high-pitched voice) for maximum cognitive retention. (former performing arts student). But otherwise, very good information. Soften the background colors so they don't compete with message.
I hope you guys do something on neurological disorders. People should probably know what bipolar disorder or clinical depression is before they use it incorrectly as I see very often in less formal situations
I learned about the Bobo experiment differently. I was taught that they showed the kids a video. There were different versions: one where the woman beat the doll and was punished, one where she beat the doll and was rewarded and one where she played nicely if I remember correctly, and some weren't shown a video. Then the kid was put in the room with a bunch of toys ranging from dolls and cars to toy guns and hammers as well as a Bobo doll to see how they would react to the doll. The kids that were shown the video where the woman was rewarded were more likely to beat the doll than the others. Also, if you've never watched the footage of the kids attacking the doll, you should, the one little girl in particular is pretty vicious.
Does this mean that when a parent smacks a child for doing something naughty/dangerous, the child isn't just learning that doing that naughty/dangerous thing leads to physical pain, but also that when you're angry at someone/something, the right response is to hit them/it? Because even if the parent isn't fully angry, that's still the look that shows on their face.
Theres more than one way to learn.. To me, it's so obvious that you don't even have to mention it. All the theories which have been introduced here are totally natural and it's so evident that our learning happens one way or the other, or in the combinations of these. But it was not the case years ago and I understand this all thanks to these great psychologists in the past. Psychology is still like a baby in academia. There's still a lot to be unearthed.
That's what they did in this experiment with the non-aggressive model! They had the model playing with tinker toys and drawing a picture. When the children made it to the final stage of experimenting they were not violent at all. It's pretty interesting
Finally made the choice to become a Subbable subscriber. I can only contribute a few dollars per month, but your work is enlightening and inspirational that's the least I can do. Please keep on opening our minds! :)
I have an example of learning association. I had a dream where for some reason I was eating out of the cat litter tray. For the next week, the sight of the cat litter tray almost made me throw up and I got all nauseous
