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THINKING CRITICALLY
How have you used the promise of a pleasurable consequence or reward to modify your own behavior or the behavior of others?
After you have answered the question, watch the video to compare the answers of other students to yours.
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Why study learning?
If we had not been able to learn, we would have died out as a species long ago. Learning is the process that allows
us to adapt to the changing conditions of the world around us. We can alter our actions until we find the behavior
that leads us to survival and rewards, and we can eliminate actions that have been unsuccessful in the past. With-
out learning, there would be no buildings, no agriculture, no lifesaving medicines, and no human civilization.
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