Book response #2

I apologize to all those who were so ecstatic to see a continuation post on the previous book I was reading "into the silent land: travels in neuropsychology". Upon reading the book I came to realize that, in order to understand in depth what the book says, I would have to learn more on psychology. So in response to that I decided to grab my fathers college psychology book and start learning.
And to those of you who are reading this and didn't read my previous post... WELCOME, you are about to reading a boring to you, fun to me, post on the first chapter have studied in the psychology book.
 Psychology is defined as "scientific study of behavior and mental process". WHOO HOO I don't know if that excites you like it does me, but even the definition of psychology makes me happy.
psychology has four primary goals that it tries to answer.
"1. description. what is happening?
2. explanation. why is it happening?
3. prediction. when will it happen again?
4. control. How can it be changed?"
These four primary goals really display how psychology is looked at, and differentiates itself from any other type of science.
In the first chapter there are multiple studies done to prove basic psychology. two of these studies really stand out and actually make me laugh.
one is called " Little Albert" in which(in sum) a bunch of scientists instill fear in a baby. what they did is, they got a baby and a fuzzy white rat, and every time the baby would see the rat the scientists would make insanely loud noises to frighten the baby, to see if "conditioning" is possible. conditioning is "a reflex. could be formed or conditioned to respond to a new and formally unrelated stimuli". the results of the experiment were positive, in that you can condition your brain, or a brain to like/ dislike things.

 if you are interested in watching a 6 minute video on the study here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBfnXACsOI hope you enjoy!
on my next blog post I will be writing on one of two things... a book entitled "Raising Cain"(is Ms. James ever brings me the book) or chapter 2 in my psychology book. well thank you all for your time. love you all and God Bless!