Opening Skinner's Box Summary

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In chapter 4 of “Opening Skinner’s Box”, Arthur Beaman argues that educating humans about social cuing and diffusion of responsibility can help us against the dangerous episodes the world has for us. The behavior of individuals throughout chapter four experiments is not enough to finalize human behavior and the consequences of their actions in a life threatening situation. Some may feel scare, embarrassed, in shocked, but we need to be able to help others in time in need even though they may or may not want the help. Renee Claire Fox of Banard, argues that the witnesses in the Kitty Genovese case was a behavior of “affect denial”, in other words they were shocked and unable to react. In today’s world many have been blaming television and video games for a lot of the violence happening today with our kids. Kids playing violent video games seem to be more in their daily lives. People definitely cannot separate real life from what they see on television, they tend to want to mimic what is on TV. The behavior of people is very disturbing. Individuals should not bring the violence from a fantasy game or movie to the real world. I do not understand how a person can just stand there and watch a woman being raped and …show more content…
“The pattern of nonverbal behavior displayed, however, was consistent with a reaction of embarrassment” (Edelmann &Hampson, 1981). Individuals are worried of the thought of being humiliated while trying to help others. They may wondered if that person really needs help, but instead of worrying so much to be rejected by someone they should not create any reasons for conflict within themselves. Latane and Darley’s experiments shows us that we should learn from our actions. There are no actions of good deed that should lead to embarrassment. We should never be embarrassed especially in life threatening situation to help someone I believe we all have moral
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