Comments on: How We Really Learn

By: chris

chris — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:06:10 +0000

God puts pain in our lives to teach us how to grow spiritually. Plain and simple. Without GOD in your life, life itself has no purpose. Remember that folks rather your a non believer or a believer. GOD is the truth.

By: Igor

Igor — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:20:50 +0000

I too am affraid of pissing away my time but i’m not intrested in anything and school to me is most boring thing in the world in short I DON’T know who I am and what I’m made for

By: Adetola

Adetola — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:04:55 +0000

despite the fact that pain leaves prints that will not be easily wiped out in our memories and sometimes push us to do things,most times we learn that we have done them for the wrong reasons and still end up feeling the fear we were initially running from.Our thoughts must be right for our actions to follow sooth, wrong thoughts can not produce right actions

By: Al

Al — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:29:44 +0000

John,

I think some of us are getting wound up a little too much on the motivational potential of Pain vs Pleasure. Both are strong motivators ionducing both positive and negative learning.

Originally, learning served us two purposes – Survival and Propogation- “Stay alive and have kids”. This is the secret to a species existance and up until now we’ve really done quite well at it.

The fear of pain or death helped us remember where food was located and which berries to pick and which to avoid. The promise of pleasure from sex helped us remember what to do to attract a mate. All of these are positives. However, the threat of pain helped motivate us to keep grudges against potential enemies and the promise of pleasure motivated us to be deceitful for our own gain. These can be construde as negative attitudes.

Both pain and pleasure help us learn both negative and positive actions. We still learn the same way.

Just a thought

By: aron

aron — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:25:00 +0000

to put much emphasis on the clique easier said than done, thers just much factors so hard to prevent from happening.. do consider them..

By: krezz

krezz — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:22:43 +0000

i agree a great mind sees beneath it all and make out the difference and go for the substance…

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By: psych major and educational specialist

psych major and educational specialist — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:58:25 +0000

Yes, we can learn from experiences that we want to avoid repeating, but we are more motivated by positive reinforcement (what non-psych people often refer to as rewards) than from negative reinforcement (what non-psych people often refer to as punishment). More importantly we don't learn from the mistake itself, at least not much more than it was a mistake, what we learn from is the feedback from the mistake. Specifically, if you're a computer programmer and a piece of code isn't working the way you expect, but you don't know why, you haven't learned anything; when you find your mistake and the code works (a) you have learned what not to do and what to do, in the context of that specific problem, and you have hopefully been positively reinforced by the successful resolution of the problem at hand. (If you repeatedly are not successful at resolving the problem, you (a) don't learn a solution to your problem and you (b) likely are negatively reinforced and become discouraged.)

By: John Wesley

John Wesley — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:59:01 +0000

Best of luck in your journey, Ahdel.