Chapter 2

I really enjoyed reading the thinking critically section in Chapter 2 called “What’s a Mother For?” The whole article basically just talked about newborns/children always seem to attach to their mother. They compared two objects in this article: a child and infants monkeys. I really seemed to enjoy this article because basically everyone has a special bond to their mother but I just never really question why that is or is that true even at all. Some of the theories stated in the passage were very plausible but then there were just some that were very absurd.

I also found classical conditioning very interesting. That was one topic I enjoyed learning about in my sociology class in high school. I always found the experiment that Pavlov did of classical conditioning on the dogs fascinating. I did some further research on classical conditioning and found some fun facts. It stated in the article that “the tasty appearance of unnatural-looking and pretty odorless foods like Twizzlers, lollipops, candy canes, and plastic-looking cakes (see photo at bottom) owe their attractive, incentivized properties to the process of classical conditioning”. (www.psychologytoday.com)