2015+PERIOD+5+PROPAGANDA,+BRAINWASHING,+and+PSYCHOLOGICAL+CONDITIONING

__Psychological Conditioning__- a theory that the reaction ("response") to an object or event ("stimulus") by a person or animal can be modified by 'learning', or conditioning.
The video is describing how isis is using pr opaganda tothreaten us and make us scared., and also to recruit. media type="youtube" key="8h4OTCD3qCg" width="560" height="315"media type="youtube" key="4hd4oEzRViU" width="404" height="331"

__Transfer__- The act of relating something or someone we like or respect with a product. Symbols are constantly used in this form.
__Testimonial__- The use of well known, respected people to endorse a product or service. __Glittering Generalities__- The act of referring to words or ideas that evoke a positive emotional response from an audience. Virtue words are often used. __Plain Folks__- The use of everyday people to sell a product or service. Speakers in ads appear to make the person to be one of the people. __Bandwagon__- Attempts to persuade the target audience to take a course of action, "Everyone else is taking." "Join the crowd." This technique reinforces peoples natural desire to be on the winning side. __Name Calling__- The use of names that evoke fear or hatred in the viewer. This technique links a person or idea to a negative symbol. __Card Stacking__- Strategy of showing the product's best features. Telling half-truths and emitting or lying about it's potential problems.

All of these images are showing how the government and the media are trying to control our knowledge. Pros and Cons of Propaganda

Pros: Propaganda can be used to call upon a stronger military when needed. It affects people by making them want to fight back against the opposing side.

For the sake of protecting a nation propaganda may go hand in hand with covering up national secrets.

Cons: Propaganda will make people want to fight and some of the time the people that fight because of it end up getting hurt or maybe even killed.

While using propaganda nation's credibility may be hurt because most propaganda is used to deceive the viewers

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== This web page explains how America is being brainwashed. It compares how our country’s military is to the Nazi regime in the 1930’s. It says how propaganda is being used the same way as it was back then. ==

This web page by Steve Rose, talks about how a Hollywood director, Frank Capra, made a series of propaganda films to try and help the U.S. war cause.
News Articles [] This article tells about one of the first times brainwashing took place in Korea.

[] This article gives different world news of when propaganda was used in the recent past.

[] On June 26, 2014, ISIS captured, brainwashed and turned 140 school boys into suicide bombers.

=Podcasts =

[|__http://www.npr.org/2015/11/25/457341930/isis-puts-together-effective-propaganda-team__]
== This podcast talks about how ISIS uses propaganda videos on social media to make everyone fear them. They post videos on Twitter and Facebook of themselves killing people. This is propaganda because it gets people to think if they don't want to get killed by ISIS they will join them against other nations. ==

[|__http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/is-it-possible-to-brainwash-someone/__]
== In this podcast the two men talk about the idea of brainwashing and how it is made possible to do such a thing. They talk about the history of brainwashing. Brainwashing is to make (someone) adopt radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible pressure. ==