Opening Skinner's Box Summary

Although religion is not the universal opium of the people, it helps many escape from reality. Sister Cecilia wants to become a saint, which seems to be her goal in life

According to Corrie & Betsie Ten Boom, life was a faith-building experience. Those two women were faced with one of the toughest experiences of their lives. Each day, Corrie and Betsie had to persuade each other that everything was going to be okay, once they were free from the “hell”, or the concentration camp they were placed in. And, yet, Corrie and Betsie somehow managed to keep in mind that God was with them.

Evidence Not Seen by Darlene Deibler Rose is a book about a woman's faith in the jungles during WW2. The second third of the book is mostly about Darlene Roses’ time in the jungle camp/prison. Its provides you with all of the different occasions in which she was pressured to deny God as her true savior. One that really stuck out to me was when they threatened to kill her if she did not conform to their religion. It made me think about what I would do in the situation. I think that I would not conform because to live is christ and to die is gain because you would be going to heaven. Another thing that I thought about as I read it is how she is sort of like the apostle Paul in when she went to jail she did not stop sharing Jesus’ love

This chapter is centered on researcher B.F Skinner, who was known for highlighting rewards and reinforcements through animal experiments. He also demonstrated operant conditioning through positive reinforcements. Today, many individuals possess both a negative and a positive view of Skinner and his experiments (ranging from evil to highest esteem respectively). This may be due to the difficulty of “separating content from controversy”(8). Skinner was born in 1904 and can be identified for many quirks such as working only on a cluttered desk. He went onto go and study psychology at Harvard in 1928, rather than taking up his desire of becoming a novelist. Despite initially avoiding the softer psychology fields, Skinner came across a psychology workshop

How do you make it go away? You don’t like the way you are feeling, something in your gut is nagging at you with an overwhelming cloud of uneasiness. Suddenly, it dawns on you that this uncomfortable sensation is the direct result of a decision you’ve recently made. Unaligned with your beliefs and morals, that decision has left you internally conflicted. Your mind races for avenues to ease your suffering. What will you do next? This is the same scenario that Margaret Langston is battling in season two from the television series Resurrection. As a well-respected woman in the community, Margaret has agreed to assist the neighborhood mob in the prevention of a child being born in their town. As events unfold and the plot thickens Margaret attempts various methods to evade the distress of cognitive dissonance. “Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors. This produces a feeling of discomfort leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes, beliefs or behaviors to

A young, innocent kid loses her mother pointlessly during a stupid accident that was no one’s fault. She is ruined. She turns to God for consolation, and she or he gets no answer. Or will she? clearly she doesn’t get the solution she needs, and she or he doesn’t get a solution she acknowledges as a solution, however by the tip she has found the peace that she desires. will that count as associate in answer? Ponette confronts us with the truth that terrible things will and do happen to the individuals we tend to most wish to defend from terrible things. because the father of Associate in Nursing almost-three-year recent lady, I ached for somebody in Ponette’s life United Nations agency might enwrap her with the love and security she required. however Ponette additionally ends by comforting United States of America with the chance of grace and healing. It’s not a simple factor, and it takes time, which time is crammed with pain. however eventually, healing will happen. Hopefully, as a part of that healing, Ponette can even come back to grasp, not that God was indifferent to her pain, however that His love and a spotlight weren't conditional upon a legalistic model of doing simply the correct factor to be worthy. She didn't have to be compelled to recite magic words, or undertake a series of playground trials, or fold her hands with great care.

Fast, funny, outrageous and a protagonist who can't catch a break. But he's clever, and as much as circumstances catch him off guard, he whips those circumstances around with his intelligence, only to spin around and end up in another mess. This book takes place in the backwoods of Kentucky where the old world of hillbillies and rednecks, con men and women, are alive and just as outrageous as they've always been. As flawed as Box is, he's got a heart that wants to be loved and turns to the internet to find it. Dumb move for a smart big city attorney. The poor buy is looking for love in all the wrong places, and yet he stumbles on it and can't get the girl out of his mind. Or his life. Doesn't want to, despite all the unsavory things he discovers

"As per usual, Dr. Box has gotten himself in a heap of trouble. When you think things hit rock bottom Have for him, They get worse and worse and worse.

The experiences that she has such as these puts so much frustration in her system that is steers her away from truly having full faith in God.

the people in control use their power it in a negative way. For instance, In

Before this woman, Jesus had never said that faith or anything internal of a person was the reason for their healing. After her healing, faith became a major requirement for the miraculous works of Jesus and his disciples. In the story of the Syrophoenician woman’s faith in Mark 7:24-30, readers find another uncooperative unnamed woman who defies not only gender laws but also racial and cultural norms by speaking to and back at Jesus to petition him to heal her demon-possessed son. Even when Jesus dismisses her, her show of “faith” allowed for her to noncompliant to Jesus’ insult, comparing her to a dog. Again, Jesus is impressed with a woman’s recalcitrant attitude when it meant liberation for someone important to

In the video it demonstrates how BF Skinner trained two pigeons on how to play ping-pong. At first it sounds crazy and my first thought was “how are they going to hold a paddle and play ping-pong?”, but that wasn’t the case. The pigeons peck the ball back and forth with each other, if the pigeon can get the ball to pass the other pigeon then he is rewarded with food. They are shaping the pigeons by rewarding them with food with every successful pass that passes the opponent. Positive reinforcement is the frequency increases because it is followed by the presentation of something that increases the likelihood the behavior will be repeated. Negative reinforcement is the frequency of a behavior increases because it is followed by the removal of

Source two is an online Christian magazine article which illustrates how to defeat “physical torment” and be “at peace with god”. The magazine article retells the story of Laura Maxwell and her constant battles with demons and evil spirits until her conversion to the Christian religion prevented these evils.

“Please God, take anything, take my life, but don’t take Yourself away from me, don’t tell me I haven’t known You at all.” What happens when science and religion clash in a fiery battle of interpretations? In Waking Life Sister John suffers an internal battle between fact and faith, and attempts to discern between a powerful religious experience and the mere side effects of an epileptic disorder. However, instead of separating the two, she mediates by allowing “science” to deny her of what she had been experiencing without giving up her faith in God. In this essay, I will take a stance that explains how science and religion dynamically work, but at the same time question why science has the power to deny religious experiences. What about science nulls these religious experiences that appear so real to the individuals that host them?

In the Bible, 1 Peter 5:10 states that “…the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.” This Bible verse explains how God will help those who are facing adversity no matter how difficult of a task it seems. In Left to Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza, Immaculée—a Tutsi women who lived during the time of the Rwandan genocide—learned that there was only one way she would be able to survive from the horrors of the genocide: having faith. From a young age, Immaculée learned God’s teachings from “[her] parents [who] were devout Roman Catholics and passed their beliefs to [her]” (Ilibagiza 6). Immaculée relied on God to make her feel secure and seem invisible to the Hutu killers that were hunting her down. Without having faith in God, Immaculée would have never survived nor been able to relay her amazing account to the millions of people around the world that have sympathized over the melancholy events that occurred during the Rwandan genocide.