Episode 8 : Behaviourism (Classical Conditioning)

 

Assalamualaikum Dr. Lihanna and everyone, group dynamite would like to propose a story that entails the elements of classical conditioning. I hope the story is interesting to you'all. Enjoy!

The Twin 

   When the story begins, Sara and Suri is identical twin, beloved daughters of Mr. Faruq and Mrs Fatimah. Both of them are studying in the Upper six at SMK Indera Petra, Gua Musang. The twins are very attached since little. They share half-pendant necklace that symbolize their sisterhood and closeness. They have a close friend called Irwan. Three of them are top scorer in their school and well-known in sports and tournaments. 

            Sara and Irwan are actually a couple, they have been in relationship for about one year but nobody knows about it albeit Suri did not know about it.  Sara was so much in love with Irwan, and she loves his every gesture for her. As for example, Irwan loves to write notes and letter for her, at random moments. Every time she receives notes and letters from him, her heart beats faster. She feels her relationship is going well, and she is the luckiest girl on earth.

            One day, Sara got the scholarship to further her study at the University of Herfordshire, United Kingdom. However, she had lost contact with her boyfriend, Irwan. Every time she sends him an email, she receives a frustrating reply. Since then, she sends lesser and lesser emails, and at one point, she stops sending emails. Their relationship has reached the flattening phase. 

            After four years studying in the UK, Sara has come back to Kuala Lumpur. Her friends had invited her to go for the school reunion on 2^nd March and apparently she wanted to meet Irwan. When she had looking towards Irwan, she felt nervous and recalled sweet memories between them by reminiscing the previous dates. At last, both of the couple get in touch.

            Unfortunately, Sara know that Irwan being in relationship with Suri, her twin by knowing that they frequently to go outside for dates. Overwhelmed, despair and hurt, she tried to contact Irwan through messages and phone calls, as she wants some answers, however, Irwan is too scared to face her. Therefore, none of Sara’s messages and phone calls are responded. Sara stopped messaging and calling him since then. In the bottom of her heart, she tried to be happy with their happiness, as she still treasures her sister’s happiness.

            She wanted to go to the Pavilion for shopping spree in the Salvatore Ferragamo boutique with her close friends. Suddenly, she bumped with Irwan with his friends. When she goes to the other shops, she feel nervous and goose bumps! When her close friends were asking about him in the Pavilion, she quickly to deny it and change the topic. She felt she hates Irwan.

            Sara does not want to be in relationship with any man anymore. Why? It is because all men are the same and cannot be trusted. So, her thought being generalised by Irwan whom all of the men are the same behaviour with him.

            This brings to a weekend where Sara going out on a date with Ahmad at their favourite restaurant, Sri Niara Melati. Across the road, Sara saw Irwan’s car parked at the front of the restaurant. She guessed as Irwan was there, Suri could be there, too. She made a call to Suri, and her guess was correct. Suri asked her twin to join them, and she came out of the restaurant to greet her twin sister.

            As Sara saw Suri’s hand’s waving for her, she crosses the road without looking left and right. To Suri’s dismay, a car came out of nowhere and hit Sara’s to the ground. The cars drove off and leave Sara’s body lying on the road, covered with blood. As Suri approaches Sara, she found in the palm of Sara’s hand is their half-pendant sisterly necklace, the necklace that they share and keep since they are little. She took the necklace of Sara’s hand and keeps it. The sight of Sara’s bloody body makes Suri shivering and frightened. 

           As years passed by, Suri is still recovering from that incident that took Sara’s life. It took her quite some times to accept the fact that her twin sister is gone. Suri can’t keep her sight on Sara’s necklace, as the necklace reminds her of that bloody accident. Every time she looks at the necklace, her mind flown to that traumatic day, and her body will be shivering. Irwan was there to support her; however, Suri ended the relationship as soon as she learned the truth on how her twin sister felt about their relationship.

           Suri has determined to move on with her life and continue her education to Masters Level. She proceeded with the application and receives an offer from University Islam Antarabangsa, Gombak. She has been thinking about the offer for quite some times, and then rejected the offer. She always remembers on how Sara has been telling her about her dreams to furthering Masters in UIAM, and therefore, furthering her study would make her remember more of her deceased sister. She might go through her study years with sadness and despair. Therefore, she accepted another offer from University Malaya, which offered the same course. She graduates a year later and married her colleague.
 

 Thank you for reading. :)

        

             

           

           

Episode 7 # Behaviorism – Tom Tales

Assalamuaalaikum Warahmatullahiwabarakatuh....

Madam Lihanna teach us about behaviorism. Behaviorism is learning that focus on behavior which involved overt activity and it is can be observes\d. Learning is a conditioning. There were @ major trends which is 

1.  Classical conditioning 
   
   
   
   
2. Instrumental conditioning

  

The first category is classical conditioning. Classical conditioning involves some reaction or feeling. It involves neutral stimulus, conditioned stimulus and conditioned responses.

On last lectures, madam gives us an activity, that tell about Tom, called as Tom Tales. Tom Tales need us to identify the  

• CS, UCS,CR,UCR.

For examples :

The good things, our group can complete it in only 20 minutes. Bravo to Sis Nadia, sis Atikah, sis Shazreen and Sis Ain. Bro Hairee, u missed it  !! hee

Thanks for reading our entry !!

Episode 6 # - Project 1 : Long Term Memory and Hafazan Project.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim...

On 28th Feb, we learnt about the Chapter 7 (Introduction to Cognition and Memory) and Chapter 8 (Long-Term Memory I: Storage).

We'd given 30 minutes to understand the gist of both capters in order to do for the next task. The task that has been given is more about application of the concept in relation to the recitation of the Quran.

This is really benefits us to understand and to memorise the Quran word by word.

Therefore, we had decided the concept that suits of the memorisation of the Quran. There are; chunking, rehearsal, internal organization and the like assertion with example of verses in the Quran.

In this activity, we found out that the application of learning is essential in every day's life including religiosity activities such as recitation of the Quran and memorisation of the Quran. On the other hand, we also appreciate effort of the Companions after the demise of Rasulullah S.A.W. to memorise all of the verses and compiled it without anything left. By looking at this example, it is imperative to note that the application of working memory has been practiced during and after the Prophet's period.

Episode 5 # Identify Learning Behaviour.

Assalamuaalaikum to all readers...

Today in class madam gives us a task. Which is madam want us to Identify the learning behaviour. Madam gives us a set question of learning behaviour and we need to recognize it.

WHAT IS LEARNING BEHAVIOUR??

 

Learning is the process that leads to changes in behavior based on practice or experience. 

Learned behaviors include imprinting, conditioning, trial and error learning, and insight learning. 

Because they result from an animal's experience, they are not usually done perfectly  the first time.
(sources google)




 




We are given 30 minutes to answer all the questions. As for first chapter, madam just let us know first the term Learning by this quiz. and after that madam gives us explanation and elaboration of this term.



Madam also gives the example of learning and have uploaded it in LMS. 

Some of examples of Learning  were :

   1. The cessation of thumb sucking by an infant.

2. The acquisition of language in children.

3. A computer program generates random opening moves for its first 100 chess games and
tabulates the outcomes of those games. Starting with the 101st game, the computer uses those
tabulations to influence its choice of opening moves.

4. A worm is placed in a T maze. The left arm of the maze is brightly lit and dry; the right arm is
dim and moist. On the first 10 trials, the worm turns right 7 times. On the next 10 trials, the worm
turns right all 10 times.

Finally, we get some information and ideas about what is actually learning behaviour. Hopefully this will helps us to gain more deep understanding about learning theoretically and practically. 

I.Allah.

Thats all for class today. 

Thank you for reading our entry. 

 Dynamites Group.

Episode 4 # Neuron Networking

Assalamuaalaikum warahmatu allahi wabarakatuh...

Today,in our class Madam Lihanna show us a video on how a neuron network communicate each other. 

 

After given 15 minutes to watch the movie,then madam asked us in a group to make a simple video to show a neuron networking. So, we came out with a simple video that has been created from 6 of us. This is our result. 

Finally, we present it to the the class.

Credit to : Bro Hairee, Sis Nadia, sis Atikah, Sis Reen, Sis Siha n Sis Ain.

XOXO

Episode 3 #: Games and Group Distributions.

Gestalt Psychology

In today’s class, madam Lihanna came and showed some pictures on the projector. She asked us what kind of theory displays those pictures. Everybody knows that those pictures are use Gestalt laws.

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 Gestalt is a psychology term which means "unified whole". It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied.

Some pictures : 

 

After a while,madam turned off the projector and gave us a bag that was full of the pieces of puzzle. She said we will play a game. At that time, everybody felt shocked but it turned to be surprised when madam told that this game will determined our group members, So, here the game.Puzzle game ! Those pictures,that we have seen, have been cut into several pieces and have been mixed in the bag. So, each student took one pieces and find the rest of the pieces. Therefore, if the puzzle are completed or combined, then the group was made

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Then,it is how our group was built with 6 people consists of 5 ladies and 1 gentleman, we become unite. After that, we sat in group and madam wanted us to make taaruf to know each other.

Furthermore, we are assigned to give our group a name and a motto.Thus, we finally decided to named ourself as Dynamite and our motto is ‘We Are Unstoppable’.

So, we are the dynamite and we are unstoppable

Thanks for reading this entry!

May Allah bless u always ^^^

Episode 2 #We are the Dynamite !!!

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim..

Hye ! A very good day to everyone. welcome to our blog. Have fun watched and read our stuff here. First and foremost, we would like thank our Learning Lecturer, Madam Lihanna Borhan, because of her, we can create this blog and knowing everybody around.

 Learning is a process that everybody would experience it. Through learning, we can shape our behavior and improved it to be better. What is learning actually??According to Kendra Cherry (2007), learning is often defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience. The behavioral school of psychology provided three of the major theories of learning: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning.

In other words, as ap psychology student, we need to familiarized ourself with this kind of concepts, so that we can trained ourself and help other people to improve their lives. Studyung psychology of learning not involve in behavioural but also the cognitive process. Hopefully,this subject can give a lot of benefits for us to apply in our lives.

Madam lihanna Borhan, our instructor, gives a trust to give us A in this subject. WE promised we will do our best madam. She also expect three things from us which are PREPARATIONS, PARTICIPATION and PROFESIONALISME. We will not make u disappointed madam, Insya-Allah…… !

  

The remarkable ones and the Dynamitess are : 

 Bro Hairee, 

 Sis Nadia, 

 Sis Atikah

 Sis Shazreen 

 Last but not least, Sis Ain.

Thanks for reading our entry !

Episode 1# Foreword

Foreword

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim ...

(In The Name of Allah, most Gracious, and most Compassionate)

Semester II, 2012/2013 begins with a new chapter of lives. New episodes of a psychology student always make us become curious and excited with the guidance of a sweet and beautiful lady which is our beloved madam. First class also make us goose bumps with the project and assessment.

Our Lecturer

Dr. Hajjah Lihanna Borhan

lihanna@iium.edu.my

Level 1, Rectory – Academic Department and Admission Record

Assessment of Psychology of Learning Class

                        Team Project I : Application of Principles

                                 II : Action research

                     Personal Journal + Personal Portfolio

                   Group Reflection + Group Learning Activities

                Hafazan

                         Final 40%

And lastly, we were expecting the same response with you which are to guide and help us to pass and get A for this subject..hihi..XOXO