I like the following report because of its comprehensiveness.
Sir,
I apologize for not mailing you for the last few days
due to a series of school test and I did not have internet for sometime before
that. These are list of the following things that I had done today, to cover up
(a few of the work were done in the past):
1. I could not really find any elaborated texts
regarding "Behavioral Science." But I did find a video of 57 minutes [an
Introduction to the subject] on YouTube, a lecture from a Stanford Professor. He
had talked about some surprising issues and I eventually understood the subject
much, much more clearly that I had when I read about it from Wikipedia. He
talks about how complicated it is to actually understand the human behavior,
how it differs from animals, how it is similar to animals, and also how
different it is from one person to another (although it was not said in detail,
probably because it was a lot more complicated).
He also explained that human
behaviorism was usually analyzed by categorizing it in the past because it is
easier that way and influential scientists form the past century had tried to
approach the topic in the similar way. But it was the main reason why people
cannot get to the depth of a certain behavior, and this is exactly what made it
complicated. He demonstrated this statement with examples. But what he tried to
say was that people would have problems categorizing because of course, there
is no one reason to that behavior ( it could be that a part of his brain
suddenly got activated, or something went wrong with his hormones, or something
in the environment affected him or the cause could also be evolution, or it
could be even more than one cause) but also because different people were found
to categorize things differently depending on what they are used to, what they
are individually familiar with. He says differences in languages can be a
factor because certain things cannot actually be categorized! So eliminating
the process of categorizing, they tend to understand behaviorism as a
whole.
You may have noticed that I did not
elaborate the similarities and differences between humans and animals, because
there were numerous examples, astonishing examples. The SINGLE MOST important
factor that concerns behavioral science is that the brain and the body affects
each other in absolutely every single matter causing behavior. The professor
asked his students to read the book Chaos by James Gleick. Have you read
it?
Hence, examples of behavioral science
could be psychology, psycho biology or cognitive science.
2. I read the wiki entry on the following – although
the reading was only very sketchy.
§ Psychotherapy
( I worked on this a little more elaborately )
§ Neurology
§ Intellectual
Property Rights
§ L'
estranger – the 1st poem from Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris
§ White
Dwarf
§ Red
Giant
§ Black
Hole
§ Hyper-nova
§ Supernova
4. Read a few pages from the book of Samuelson, the
one you posted on the blog
5. Trying to finish reading as much as summaries
possible from Cummings and so far I finished reading.
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Agamemnon
- Animal Farm
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Coriolanus
- King Lear
- Merchant of Venice
- The Trial
6. Watched the movie “Lord of the
Flies" (I forgot to report this to you)
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