Wednesday, March 11, 2009

And the Debate Rages On


Psychologists are good at finding insignificant things to argue about.

"That's social learning," "No! That's behavioral imitation," "No! That's cognitive thought processes that we cannot understand," "No! It's reward and punishment!"

Feed forward! Feed backward! Forward! Backward! Forward! Backward! Operant! Respondent! Operant! Respondent! Stimulus-response! Response-stimulus! Stimulus-response! Response-stimulus!

It's all a semantical merry-go-round. Until psychologists pull their heads out of their asses and realize that arguing about the mumbo-jumbo isn't getting us anywhere, psychology will continue to be a "soft" science and continue to be universally misunderstood. /rant

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

And still typos run rampant, even in the most relevant internet rants. Overall rating? 9/10

Joe said...

what typos?

Anonymous said...

GG you fixed it. Government cover-up FTL.

Joe said...

omg wtf you thnk this is a Communist gov't coverup wtf??!?!??111!