Monday, February 7, 2011

Book Reading #13 - Opening Skinner's Box

Opening Skinner's Box Ch3


Summary:
This chapter talks about an experiment done that fakes a mental illness in order to get into a mental asylum. The conditions of the asylum are described and brought out into the open including call their tests for mental illness false. The test is then repeated on a group of select individual whom some are diagnosed with mental illness, although all of them are sane.






Discussion:
This seemed interesting to me because of the fact that faking an illness was needed to get into the asylum. It seemed quite amusing to me and how fun it would be to have to fake being insane.

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