2014+PERIOD+2+PROPAGANDA,+BRAINWASHING,+and+PSYCHOLOGICAL+CONDITIONING

=Propaganda, Brainwashing,and Psychological Conditioning =

By: Nicole, Christina, Annemarie, and Marianna __**Articles: **__ [|__http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-reviews-brainwashed/__] This is an article that is based how brainwashing is used in sales. Lays Potato chips used neuroscience to determine how to sell more chips to women. [|__http://www.phinnweb.org/neuro/brainwash/__] This article gives the types of brainwashing that are ever used. It also gives when they were used and how to use them. [|__http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/1964:fourteen-propaganda-techniques-fox-news-uses-to-brainwash-americans__] This is an article where Dr. Cynthia Boaz is explaining how Fox News is brainwashing everyone to watch their podcast. They have fourteen specific techniques that they go into detail about. Some examples of this are by rewriting history, confusion, and populism. [|__http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/the-sat-as-a-brainwashing-tool-chinese-shrug-off-fears/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A13%22%7D__] This article is about how Chinese students are taking the SAT’s and how it affects them. The parents of the students are claiming that by taking the American SAT’s it is brainwashing the kids into thinking like the americans.

Pros and Cons of Brainwashing, Propaganda, and Psychological Conditioning! Blog Posts: [|__http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/socialscience/propaganda/__] - This blog explains propaganda and its effects on all people. Propaganda is defined as ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause [|__http://www.patheos.com/blogs/searchingfortomsawyer/2014/09/the-imperative-for-brain-washing-our-kids/__] - This blog talks about brainwashing in children and the effects on them as they grow up. Brainwashing is the systematic effort to destroy an individual's former loyalties and beliefs and to substitute loyalty to a new idea or power. [|__http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fixing-psychology/201402/explaining-behaviorism-operant-classical-conditioning__] - This blog explains the ideas of classical and phychological conditioning. Classical/psychological conditioning a process of behavior modification made famous by Ivan Pavlov and his experiments conducted with dogs. [|__http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/01/11/what-is-classical-conditioning-and-why-does-it-matter/__] - This blog talks about phychological conditioning, why it matters and gives you a general idea of Pavlov’s dog experiment. Ivan Pavlov used dogs to experiment with the idea of “psychic reflexes”.
 * Pros || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">Cons ||
 * <span style="color: #7a3a91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Brainwashing can help us not feel any empathy during war || <span style="color: #7a3a91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Abusing these techniques will hurt a person ||
 * <span style="color: #7a3a91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">You can get what you want a lot easier || <span style="color: #7a3a91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Propaganda can be false, and misleading.Because of that people may not get the right information. ||
 * <span style="color: #7a3a91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Overcome negative traits and behaviors || <span style="color: #7a3a91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">It can ruin relationships in the long term ||
 * <span style="color: #7a3a91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Change a person’s view || <span style="color: #7a3a91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">You may over analyze it ||
 * <span style="color: #7a3a91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Psychological conditioning helps us “train” an animal or even humans to do what we want || <span style="color: #7a3a91; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Brainwashing can be overused and end our badly ||



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">News Articles: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|__http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/the-sat-as-a-brainwashing-tool-chinese-shrug-off-fears/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A13%22%7D&_r=0__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This article is about the SAT being used as a brainwashing material to Chinese student who want to go to American Universities. They have to take the SAT in order to be accepted into an American college and they feel that they are being brainwashed by taking this test. “The Beijing Youth Daily reported recently that some Chinese were worried that the minds of the country’s youth would be ‘focibly infiltrated with American values.’” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|__http://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/24/opinion/l-behavior-modification-is-not-brainwashing-203159.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A13%22%7D__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In a news article back in January, the C.I.A. conducted an experiment where there would be powerful electrical shocks and drugging of the patients into long sleep. During this experiment they would explore techniques or behavior modification. This was considered a project in behavior modification, but we would consider it brainwashing. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|__http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/opinion/life-under-russias-gay-propaganda-ban.html?mabReward=relbias:r,{%222%22:%22RI:13%22}&adxnnl=1&module=Search&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1416405715-jtKISSzilZQOtNm6YQNG8Q__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Russia has now, for six months, had a nationwide ban on “nontraditional sexual relations.” This makes homosexuality a crime to just mention it to minors. There have been consequences for breaking this law, and one is prosecution. Some restrictions of this include the ability to have street performances. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Web Page <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">s: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|__http://www.simplypsychology.org/classical-conditioning.html__] This webpage is about classical conditioning and the steps scientists take when for it. There are three steps in detail. There is also a little background about who discovered it. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|__http://psychology.about.com/od/behavioralpsychology/a/classical-vs-operant-conditioning.htm__] This is where you can learn about the differences between oparent and classical conditioning. For example the different scientists who discovered them or how they work. Overall it is just a general summary of both. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|__http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Brainwashing.html__] On this webpage it is just a brief summary of the origin on brainwashing. It tells the theories and the why’s. It talks about the Korean war and where it started. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|__http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro05/web3/ysano.html__] This page is the science behind brainwashing. It states the process and how everything works. Brainwashing is a very complex science and this website helps explain it thoroughly. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|__http://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/gi-roundtable-series/pamphlets/what-is-propaganda/the-story-of-propaganda__] The use of propaganda varies but the general usage was in war in the past. This page touches on that. There isn’t much science involved but propaganda can be useful.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Corresponding Criticism: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Brainwashing: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">“An English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, The South China Morning Post, published a column last month by Kelly Yang, a local SAT tutor, who asserted that the SAT redesign scheduled for 2016 would be “the first time America is able to systematically shape the views, beliefs and ideologies of hundreds of thousands of Chinese students… The Beijing Youth Daily reported recently that some Chinese were worried that the minds of the country’s young would be “forcibly infiltrated with American values.” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|__http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/the-sat-as-a-brainwashing-tool-chinese-shrug-off-fears/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A13%22%7D&_r=0__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">“Mr. Griffin, a 33-year-old former chemical plant worker who had sat quietly throughout most of the trial, is charged with murder in the slaying of Dr. Gunn, who was shot three times in the back outside Pensacola Women's Medical Services last March 10. Heat of Religious Passion Brainwashed by Burt?... Mr. Burt described showing videotapes of abortions as well as two dismembered aborted fetuses to Mr. Griffin and his wife, Patricia… ‘Michael was just quiet, not disturbed, at least outwardly,’ Mr. Burt said, Defense lawyers contend that Mr. Griffin was "influenced" or "brainwashed" by Mr. Burt.” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Propaganda: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">“For more than 60 years, propaganda has been one of Beijing’s most important tools in sustaining Communist Party rule. In addition to lavishly praising the government and the party, propaganda has been deployed to impart moral instruction… ‘We were implored to resist the vulgar content. My faith in CCTV began to falter in 1999, when I started to read accounts online that contradicted the CCTV versions of the 1958-1962 Great Famine, in which millions died. CCTV claimed that China was afflicted during that time by years of natural disasters. It described the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989 as “a counter-revolutionary riot.”... CCTV did not utter a word when Chen Guangcheng, the blind human rights lawyer, was illegally held under house arrest… And every year, when thousands of protests against injustices in every part of China occur, CCTV is silent.. They mock the tone and style of the propaganda and resist the moral preaching. It’s fair to say that in the Internet age, the Chinese government’s propaganda machine is facing a cri[|sis.’”] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Psychological Conditioning: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">“Too Many Cooks uses the psychological conditioning described in “Content Nausea” to subvert the viewer’s expectations… ‘The sitcom is programmed in our pop culture psyches. We instinctively understand the cues, language and signals. We laugh when we are supposed to. We cry when we are told. There is nothing more comfortable or easier to watch than the sitcom.’ These television shows — think Full House, All in the Family and Alf — are drilled into our psyches through television re-runs and Buzzfeed articles, and they are precisely crafted to make us feel comfortable and at home… Recognizable images and uncannily familiar characters fly by on-screen for mere seconds before the viewer is thrown into a completely unrelated context. Each scene offers an opportunity to escape, but each time, this possibility is thwarted mercilessly. We find at one point in the video that the characters are literally trapped inside the television show, unable to escape this fictional reality. These images and scenes, which in another context we might ignore, are manipulated to create a visceral sense of horror — and of hilarity.” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|__http://cornellsun.com/blog/2014/11/16/bromer-spoiling-the-broth-the-age-of-content-nausea/__] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">“Behaviorism accounts for the behavior of animals and human beings by observing physical responses to stimuli from outside the organism. Skinner rejected what he could not literally observe, such as feelings, moods, thought, and the unconscious, and based his work on the patterns of responses. He believed that people could achieve self-understanding only through systematically modifying their behavior by following his principles… New behavior that occurs accidentally through the individual's distinctive experience and genetic background can become a fixed behavior pattern through what Skinner called positive reinforcement, that is, reward of some kind… Skinner demonstrated successive approximation in 1937 when, after noting an experiment in which a chimpanzee "earned" poker chips which could be traded for food, he believed that similar behavior was possible for a less advanced animal--in this case, a rat… During World War II he designed a homing device for the guided missile by putting pigeons in the nose cone and conditioning them to peck at an image of the target and thus, through electrical impulses, steer the missile as it descended.” __ [|__http://decades.sirs.com/decadesweb/decades/do/reference?urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B48801560__] __



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[|__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwN_HusyoH0__] - The Giver- brainwashing with morning injections (2:30) [|__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl9aqZk4kFU__] - The Hunger Games reaping propaganda video (1:18) [|__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_PnuXelvWA__] - Zoolander’s brainwashing scene. (2:35) [|__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJJpbRx_O8__] - Pavlov Dog eating hand (1:55)
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