Category: papers

  • Fixed Response Lab Report

    Yong Ho Kim March 10, 2003 1. Describe your rat’s progress during shaping. A mistake in the experimenter’s side must be firsthand explained in order to make sense of the rat’s behavior. I understood that the rat was not being given water until it pressed the lever by itself and assumed that the light was […]

  • Depth of Processing Assignment

    April 4th, 2003 Yong Ho Kim Kalat (2002) summarizes the traditional consensus in the psychological community regarding short-term and long-term memory. Short-term memory is a “temporary storage of the information that someone has just experienced’ and long-term memory is “a relatively permanent store of mostly meaningful information”. Additionally, short-term memory stores up to seven (plus […]

  • Shaping lever press behavior and fixed ratio training for water-deprived rats

    Yong Ho Kim Macalester College Operant conditioning is a particular type of conditioning in which the subject associates particular behaviors with particular responses, and performs the behavior whenever it desires the response.

  • Reflective Essay on Readings of Marx’s Early Writings

    Professor Peter Rachleff January 29th, 2003 Yong Ho Kim While at Mac, I got to hear of current humanities theories during my Intro HCST class. Under professor Kordela’s guidance, I was introduced to Zizek and his approach to Lacan, and followed a survey of western thought from ancient Greece to Debord and Derrida, and came […]

  • Integration Paper on Race and Ethnicity

    Introduction to Sociology Professor Sharon Preves Due by December 9th Turned in by December 16th (7 days late) The U.S. banned the discrimination based on race, sex or ethnicity, through the Civil Rights Act, almost 40 years ago in 1964. However, more subtle, permeating forms of racism are prevalent in today’s U.S. society according to […]

  • Integration Paper on Social Class and Inequality

    Integration Paper on Social Class and Inequality Introduction to Sociology Professor Sharon Preves Due by November 18th, 2002 Turned in by November 25th, 2002 Yong Ho Kim Any large enough society in the world today faces problems of individual and social inequality among its people. In chapter 10 of his book, Newman has addressed this […]