Common Laborer

After reading through chapter six, I began reading chapter seven of our psychology text titled, Learning. Learning is something we do everyday even we don’t realize it. While reading chapter seven, I learned that there are three different types of learning, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and cognitive learning. Classical conditioning stands for two types of stimuli linking providing us the tools to have a reaction; this is the type of learning that involves automatic behaviors. Operant conditioning is the type of learning that causes a change in behavior, in reaction to consequences; this is the behavior that involves choosing of choices. Lastly, cognitive learning is the obtaining of new skills, behaviors, and information through

Most humans learn by simply watching, and then imitating the action rather than trial and error or direct experiences of the consequences of our actions (this is not to say that watching and imitating is the only way of learning). This method of learning is called observational learning. The highly recognized psychologist with observational learning is Albert Bandura. Bandura’s theory states that observational learning

Observational learning is another simple behavioral training technique. It’s as simple as its name, you learn by watching others. For example, let’s say you are trying to learn to balance a book on your head. You’ve been watching your parent do it and you try it out as well by imitating their behaviors that you previously observed. That’s a basic example of learning by observation. This helps us better understand human behavior in this way: it tells us that humans observe other behavior and try to imitate it in order to achieve the same, or a similar effect. That is another basic aspect of human behaviors that also occurs on a daily basis.

Observational learning is simply learning by observing the behavior of other people called models (Bandura 1997,1986,1989 2000,2006). Bandura sees observational learning as one of the most important mechanism through which humans behavior changes. Cady watched how “the plastics”acted and that is why she eventually became one. This type of learning is more cognitive than conditioning because people have to pay attention to how the person acted at a particular time and make mental pictures to use them later on.

Mike Rose, research professor and author, argues in his article “Blue-Collar Brilliance” that working-class citizens have often been overlooked in terms of intelligence, but that they hold a great deal of skills and ideas they gain from their respective lines of work. Rose describes several jobs considered to be clue-collar and evaluates and describes the intelligence that is required and also how they apply it. Rose assesses each job and explains to readers why each job holds a level of cognitive sense. Though it is commonly thought that blue collar workers hold less intelligence due to their lack of schooling, Rose defends this idea with bold arguments.

The social learning approach as explained in P1, suggests that learn new behaviours and information by observing other that are around them. This is also known as observational learning.

People with certain learning abilities such as kinetic, visual, tactical, and auditory learners, attract to each other. Therefore, their learning styles can further enhance each other’s ability learning and ability to work faster and efficiently.

In the essay titled “Blue Collar Brilliance” author Mike Rose argues that many fields of work involve using a high amount of mental cognition to work efficiently and effectively, including working class occupations. Rose gives two anecdotes of personal family members who used their “blue collar brilliance” to succeed in their respective fields of work. While many people are quick to assume less schooling for a career requires less intelligence, Rose shows how even manual labor can use a high amount of intelligence with a story of his uncle who was promoted from an entry level line worker to a supervisor for a whole department. The employees who use their intelligence and cognition are the ones who are accomplished and promoted even if they

“Bandura analyzed the nature of observational learning and found it to be governed by four related mechanisms: attentional processes, retention processes, production processes, and incentive and motivational processes” (Schultz & Schultz, 2013, p. 335). First, there are various changing forces that can effect attentional processes (Schultz & Schultz, 2013). According to Bandura, “observational learning or modeling will not occur unless the subject pays attention to the model” (Schultz & Schultz, 2013). For example, even though Antwone was not raised by his biological parents, he had several influences in his life.

Individuals learn in different ways, whether it be verbal, auditory, kinaesthetic, visual or logical (Brady, 2013). A range of methods incorporating each learning style needs to be considered.

Employers would try to find labor for the lowest price possible, because that would result in the greatest profit for themselves. On the other hand, employees would fight for the highest wages they could. Frederick Winslow Taylor’s “The Principles of Scientific Management” takes into account both parties, and tries to find a way to reconcile the two parties. Taylor claims that “the great majority of workmen still believe that if they were to work at their best speed they would be doing a great injustice to the whole trade” (Taylor 375). He believes that a lot of workers participate in soldiering, because they don’t wish for those who are not as good as them to lose their work.

Learning: learning is a mandatory skill that is needed for every single person in the world. No one simply just knows something right off the bat, everything must be learned. They’re many types of learning techniques; each person has their own learning style. Accordingly, there are three main learning types; audible ( hearing), visual, and kinesthetic ( hands on ). Not every skill is learned in the classroom, some skills are just acquired through life’s experiences. There are many theories concerning the matter of learning; this essay will discuss two very popular theories, Observational learning and associative learning. The observational learning and associative learning theories are the result of genius; they shed a light on the previously

In regards to social cognitive theory, one is looking at the fact that people learn by observing behavioral

The year 1911 saw Frederick Winslow Taylor publish a book titled ‘The principles of scientific management’ in which he aimed to prove that the scientific method could be used in producing profits for an organization through the improvement of an employee’s efficiency. During that decade, management practice was focused on initiative and incentives which gave autonomy to the workman. He thus argued that one half of the problem was up to management, and both the worker and manager needed to cooperate in order to produce the greatest prosperity.

Every individual has their own way of learning specific behaviors. Some behaviors are learned through teaching while other behaviors are learned unknowingly. Unknowingly, meaning not anticipating on automatically learning something; however becoming involved in a specific kind of environment. Many people learn behaviors from the environment that surrounds them and some people learn behaviors from people who influence them outside of their comfort zones. Some people admire change and adapt quickly while others take a while to become accustom to change.