Pavlov vs Watson

Both Pavlov and Watson I would say, were aiming towards the same type of theory and experiment. Although they both conducted rather different experiments, they both showed the same type of message that was trying to be brought forth. Both these experiments focused on human and animal behavior and how it can change with what we know as earning what you deserve(reward) or deserving something you should've have learned(consequence).

In Pavlov's experiment, he used an animal, a dog, as his testee. Pavlov tried to see the dog's change in behavior by a ring of the bell which we learned is known as a stimulus which is something that activates the person to do something. In this case, the bell acted as the stimulus. Everytime the bell was rang the dog rushed over and was rewarded food to responding the calling of the bell. After many trials of this, the bell was rang yet again but this time no food was given. Trials happened again and again and the dog soon to learn that once the bell would ring no treats would be given, so in turn, the dog would ignore the calling of the bell.

Although, in Watson's experiment, he used a human, a baby named Baby Albert. Baby albert was to put his hand in a box with animals to see if he would b frightened by them. Come to show she showed no sign of fear. After many trials, they put a mouse in there and when he put his hand in there a big boom went off which then scared him. They did this about two more times. Now when they just showed Baby Albert the animals that were furry like the mouse, he automatically stirred up fear from the boom. Although he showed no fear with the other animals, just from the boom stimulated his fear and had him fear every animal.


Both Pavlov and Watson showed experiments in which behavior changed with a matter of a simple stimulus. Although the testee was different, they both came to the same conclusion. This theory of a stimulus affecting your behavior plays also in the enviornment and how they live. With these experiments/theories it should show us how to react and learn from many trials of doing things many wrong or right.

Assignment #2- Reading Scatter Plots and Understanding Correlations

The scatter plot shows a relationship between height vs shoe size. It seems to show that the relationship is that the shoe size is the dependent. The taller you are, the bigger the show size. Within the graph, you can depict that as the number of people who are taller increases the shoe size gets bigger. In reality, you can see that people who are taller have a bigger foot that those who are smaller who have smaller feet. The graph also shows that it is positive correlation because it shows a positive trend although it isn't constant throughtout the graph. The outcome of this graph is Taller People=Bigger Feet; Shorter People=Smaller Feet.

This scatter plot does not show a relationship in hair length vs. height. There is not a correlation in this graph because there are two variables that make it harder to diagnose the relationship. The two variables are the gender: Male and Female. Height does not affect the growth of a male or females hair rather it is just genetics made up in them. People who are short doesnt mean that they will have short hair and vice versa. If, perhaps, we did an analysis and two different graphs one on femaile hair lenght vs height and male hair lenght vs height. Then, maybe, will we see a trend and different better showing results.

Assignment #1 How Do You Feel About Blogging?

How do I feel about blogging? Being as this is my first time doing an academic blog, I found it rather complicated. I came across obstacles that were frustrating but I got the hang of it after a few times of deleting my blog and recreating it. Having an academic blog will help me be, you can say, a little more open minded to what my other fellow classmates have to say on the subject. It will help me do these assignments because of how easy it can be of just logging onto the Internet. Also, it gives me another reason to be on the computer.


Creating an academic blog was difficult compared to those such as Myspace and Facebook. Looking on when my friends created a Myspace or Facebook, it seemed easier then an academic blog. It was as simple as one, two, three. This academic blog took me about a week to figure out what i did wrong. I didn't do it right because i never created a URL at the beginning of setting up my account. As I messed around with it a little more i figured out the problem. I then had to delete the blog and create another one. I couldn't quite figure out if i had to reply to the assignment on Mr. Cantor's page or through email. All of a sudden Mr. Cantor helped me with that and here I am posting a blog. Obviously this is my first time creating an academic blog. I believe it will help me do high quality assignments for the fact that when i attend college, mostly everything you do is electronic. This will help me be better prepared to what I am expected to do when attending college. Having my work out in the World Wide Web is I can say weird. Having other people look at my work is is weird yet interesting. Having other students, teachers, and total strangers look at my views on certain subjects, can really help others see what I have to say. Discussions can probably go smoothly within the classroom because i can look at my other classmates and either agree or disagree with their thoughts and opinions. This can really be the start of something new for me.


Doing this whole blog got my aggravated and heated at moments but I can really see myself getting the hang of doing this. Doing this blog like i said earlier, can help me be more open minded to others and the advancement of technology. Using this throughout the 2009-2010 school year will be interesting and of course gives me a reason to be on the computer all day and all night. Since the creation of my blog, I can now relax and be calm about what else I should expect during the school year. This academic blog will be interesting and hopefully fun throughout the year.