What Would Jane Do? (3)

Welcome back for more wisdom from Jane Austen! 

It's rather amazing how we can learn so much from a British author! I'm amazed! 
At her time a female writer wouldn't be consider writing at all, but her father helped the best he could for his bright daughter's success. Without him we wouldn't be here, today, reading her wonderful work! 

III. Mistress of myself
No one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do... Nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused and interested you because I was so unlike them. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
You must try not to mind growing up into a pretty woman. - Mansfield Park (1814)
As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. - Mansfield Park (1814)
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other. - Emma (1815)
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. - Emma (1815)
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
We all have our best guides within us, if only we would listen. - Mansfield Park (1814)
I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. - Mansfield Park (1814)
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful,  I should not be shy. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have. - Mansfield Park (1814)
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Let your conduct be the only harangue. - Mansfield Park (1814)
My being charming... Is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming- one other person at least. - Emma (1815)
Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away... Till this moment I never knew myself. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. -Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint. - Mansfield Park (1814)

Chapter IV will be for everybody, so keep up with me as I read along the little book given to me by my mum. 
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to love one of my favorite authors much more everytime I read her piece of work. 


" There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. " 

~Bella

Psych 101... Social Learning Theory...

I was reading a few pages from my Psych 101 little book and came across an interesting social learning theory. I thought I would share it with you...

" One of the most influential learning theories in psychology, Albert Bandura's social learning theory of 1977 states that instead of acquired behavior being strictly a matter of rewards or reinforcements, it can be brought about through observational learning. He states that people grasp how to behave based on the behavior of the people around them. 
People are surrounded by models that can be observed, be it a person's parents, peers, teachers, or even characters on a TV show. These models provide both masculine and feminine behaviors that can be observed or encoded, and then later imitated or copied. A person will be more likely to imitate a behavior of someone who he or she feels more similar to. Often, this means a person of the same sex. There are three main concepts to Bandura's social learning theory:

1. A person can learn behavior through observation: This can be from a live model (an actual person performing the behavior), a verbal model that provides instructions (an explanation or description of a particular behavior), or a symbolic model (behaviors portrayed in books, television, and film).

2. The mental state is an important aspect to learning: While environmental reinforcement is one aspect of learning a behavior, it is not the only one. Satisfaction, pride, and feelings of accomplishment are examples of what Bandura called intrinsic or internal reinforcement. In other words, internal thoughts can play an important role in learning a behavior. 

3. Learning does not mean that a behavior will necessarily change: Behaviorists believed that learning a behavior led to a permanent change in the individual's behavior, but Bandura shows that with observational learning, a person can learn the new information without having to demonstrate this behavior. Conversely, just because a behavior is observed does not mean it will be learned. For social learning to be a success, there are certain requirements: 

• Attention: To learn, one must pay attention, and anything that diminishes attention will negatively affect observational learning.
• Retention: One must be able to store the information, and hen at a later time be able to pull it back up and use it.
• Reproduction: After paying attention and retaining information, the observed behavior has to be performed. Practice can lead to improvement of the behavior.
• Motivation: The last part to successfully learning an observed behavior is that a person must be motivated to imitate the behavior. It is here where reinforcement and punishment come into play. If an observed behavior is reinforced, one might wish to duplicate that response; while if an observed behavior is punished, one might be motivated to not do such an action.

THE BOBO DOLL EXPERIMENT

To show that children observe and imitate behaviors around them, Bandura created the famous Bobo doll experiment. In conducting his experiment, Bandura found that children who watched the aggressive models generally imitated a good deal more of the responses toward the bobo doll that the children in the control or the children in the group who watched the nonaggressive models. He also found that girls who watched the aggressive model expressed more verbally aggressive responses when the model was the woman, and more physically aggressive responses when the model was the man. The boys imitated physically aggressive acts more than the girls did, and they imitated the same-sex model more often than the girls did. Through the Bobo doll experiment, Bandura was able to successfully show that the children learned a social behavior, in this case, aggression, by watching the behavior of someone else. With the Bobo doll experiment, Bandura was able to disprove a key notion of behaviorism that stated that all behavior is the result of rewards and reinforcement. 

EXPERIMENT                           Conducting the Bobo doll 

                                                     experiment

1.This experiment utilizes thirty-six boys and thirty-six girls ranging from three to six years old.

2.The control for the experiment is a sub-group of twelve boys and twelve girls.

3.The role models in the experiment are one adult man and one adult woman. 

4.Twenty-four boys and girls are allowed to watch as the man or woman aggressively attack a toy called the "Bobo doll." Among other things, they hit it with a hammer and throw it in the air while screaming things like, "Pow, boom," and "Sock him in the nose."

5.Another group of twenty-four boys and girls are exposed to a model who is nonaggressive toward the Bobo doll. 

6.Lastly, the control group is not exposed to any model.

"Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story." - Chris Cleave

~Bella

What Would Jane Do? (2)

Here comes the time to write about chapter II of the little book "What would Jane do?" 

I've been eager to write about it for a while now, and this time, the chapter is more for ladies than men! Don't be judgmental, Jane Austen is a woman so obviously she writes more for ladies... But it doesn't mean you can't read what I'm about to write! Please keep reading...

II. Good Impressions for Great Ladies

Every neighborhood should have a great lady. - Sanditon (1817)
One can never have too large a party. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
You are never sure of a good impression being durable. - Persuasion (1817)
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way- Emma (1815)
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
We do not look in great cities for our best morality. - Mansfield Park (1814)
My idea of good company... Is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. - Persuasion (1817)
Those who do not complain are never pitied. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
There are some people who cannot bear a party of pleasure. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
One-half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. - Emma (1815)
I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London... I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Every man is surrounded by neighborhood of voluntary spies.- Northanger Abbey (1817)
It was a delightful visit; -perfect, in being much too short. - Emma (1815)
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. - Mansfield Park (1814) 

Sometimes one if guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
I have frequently thought that I must have been intended by nature to be fond of low company, I am so little at my ease among strangers of gentility!- Sense and Sensibility(1811)
I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, Impatient to restore everybody, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort. - Mansfield park (1814)
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
We are sent into this world to be as extensively useful as possible, and where some degree of strength of mind is given, it is not a feeble body which will excuse us- or incline us to excuse ourselves. - Sanditon (1817)

Hope you understood every single meaning as it could be challenging at times. Old English and their old saying... We won't be able to change that! 

The more I read what she wrote, the more I love how she express herself. Hopefully, I won't pick up on anything, I can deal with the British accent but not the writing! 

Next chapter will also be more for ladies... Mistresses... Keep checking for the next interesting chapter! 


" The more I know the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love." 

~Bella

It's getting me frustrated...

Alright, alright, a couple days ago or maybe a week or so ago, I showed you how much I disliked the new app "Pokemon GO"... I mean I even shared a video from KSI explaining what's all about, a little. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint the community, but it's finally catching up to me... I don't mean literally, but it's coming for me! 

The game came out not too long ago and it is still running like nothing before. People across the planet is playing, heard of the app. Even my dear mother, I'm sure, has heard it all the way in France. It's a new addiction that is taking the life of millions, attacking young kids to old grandparents who decided to check out what their grandchildren are spending most of their precious time doing. It is a danger to society, instead of partying, they are walking the streets, filming, looking down on their phones instead of looking at the road in front of them, a danger may attack and hit them hard. The society has fallen and no one is doing a damn thing about it! What have we done to our generation? 

After watching my YouTubers play the idiotic game on their smartphones, I decided to watch a French YouTuber play it as well, and I couldn't stop laughing.  It's finally catching up to me, and I'm not happy about it at all. You would think I'm strong enough to stay away from the game, the addiction that consumes most people, well no. I want to play and get Pokemon as well. Horrible idea, I will end up having no more life if it comes to this... But hey, it's calling me as well as others, the curiosity is consuming me, little by little, making me want to get the app and become a sheep (let's be honest, one friend is playing so you are playing... A sheep following the leader.)

Luckily!

I can't play on my IPhone! Yes, laugh at me, laugh at the fact that I won't update my IPhone to a better one, throw away my IPhone 4... Well, sorry, but no! I won't update my phone, no I won't be able to play the stupid game, happy? 
My phone is saving my life at the moment, instead of playing the game, I'm doing other things, more important than catching unreal Pokemon. The day Pokemon do exist, I will download the app after I obviously update my phone to the newest version. 
For now, I will either have to play on a friend's phone or my brother's phone, if he has downloaded the game while in France which I highly doubt. He isn't the type of guy to play that game, but hey, we never know, my dream of catching at least one unreal Pokemon may come true one day. Until that day, I'm stuck on YouTube, watching my YouTubers catching, evolving Pokemon. 
Well here is my YouTuber when he started playing ...

I won't lie to you, I can't... 

I'm officially sad, I won't be able to download the app, I won't be able to become the greatest Pokemon thingy (I can't remember the term so thingy is the best I came up with), I won't be able to fulfill my destiny like Ash did in his adventures, the ones I watched as a youngster. The disappointment is real, painful and I can't do much about it. My dream of becoming a red team member is going to the toilet because my phone is saving my life and my time as well. Come on, I was destined to be on the red team since I was a kid, look at little me... 
I don't know if I should be happy or sad about the subject, but I clearly frowning to the idea that my phone is too old and Pokemon GO won't make it to my phone. 

"I wonder when my human will evolve?"

~Bella