We have a winner!

Elvin M. Singson, a 3rd year BS Psychology student, submitted the correct answer last January 25. His answer is Ivan Pavlov, which is the correct answer for our trivia this month.

Classical conditioning was the first type of learning to be discovered and studied within the behaviorist tradition (hence the name classical). The major theorist in the development of classical conditioning is Ivan Pavlov, a Russian scientist trained in biology and medicine (as was his contemporary, Sigmund Freud). Pavlov was studying the digestive system of dogs and became intrigued with his observation that dogs deprived of food began to salivate when one of his assistants walked into the room. He began to investigate this phenomena and established the laws of classical conditioning. Skinner renamed this type of learning "respondent conditioning" since in this type of learning, one is responding to an environmental antecedent.

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/behsys/classcnd.html

What are you waiting for? You could be the next winner! Just visit our site from time to time and answer the trivia of the month. We give a P100 worth of gift certificate!

Trivia Question for January

Who is the proponent of Classical Conditioning?

What are you waiting for? Email your answer, name, year and section to college_guidance@csab.edu.ph for a chance to win a gift certificate!

Notes:

1. Only bonafide college students of CSA-B can participate.

2. Only e-mail entries are accepted.

3. The first to submit the CORRECT ANSWER will be declared winner for the month.

4. The name of the winning participant will be posted on this web page.

5. The winner will claim the prize at the College Guidance Center and present his/her valid school ID to Sir Michael.

To our previous winners, please give chance to other students.

Beginning EARS Echo Training at the College Guidance Center

Thirty-three psychology students and four guidance associates together with their director participated in the two-morning sessions of the Beginning EARS (Empathy, Assistance, and Referral Services) training last January 14 and 15, 2010. EARS is a student-run organization of Cornell University that offers counseling, training and workshops (http://ears.dos.cornell.edu).

Mr. Nick Alayon, the Guidance Services Center director, inspired the participants with his opening remarks. He stressed that empathy is not just putting oneself into the shoes of the other but is something far beyond. Empathy is entering the world of another human being and experiencing the world in that perspective.

The first session focused on the attitudes and attending behaviors peer counselors possess. These behaviors are a great help in the efficiency of the counseling process especially in its initial stages. The following sessions further immersed the participants into the realm of counseling.

According to the psychology students, the two – morning sessions were very inspiring and very helpful for them as peer counselors.

Ms. Lucille Arcedas, who had completed the first level of the EARS training at Cornell University, facilitated the training.

First Winner from CASE

The prize for our December trivia goes to Michelle Tiangson, a 3rd year psychology student, who submitted the first correct answer on January 14, 2010 at 12:32 PM. 

The answer for our December trivia is Edward Lee Thorndike.

Thorndike’s major contributions to psychology were the methods that he developed for educational psychology.  This is the main reason for him being called the father of modern educational psychology. 

http://faculty.frostburg.edu/mbradley/psyography/thorndike.html