Who Is Lee Kamar - 1638 Words

Who is Lee Kamar? I was born in September 1996 as a second child in a family of five. I was born and raised in the warm and tropical highlands of Kenya, a country known primarily for its diverse wildlife as well as its export of the best long distance runners on the planet. As a child, I enjoyed watching and playing football (or soccer) with friends and even strangers at times. There is something special about kicking a ball around a field of grass, it’s almost like art in a way. The excitement when playing in front of a crowd of passersby who get enthralled by the action of the sport is something special that I sometimes reflect upon. Other than football, I tried running as a sport but it was all in vain as others were simply faster, and†¦show more content†¦The aspects that are influenced by nurture in my life and the lives of most people in the society are things like how people dress and what the society expects people to act in a certain situation. For example, m y sense of style is greatly determined by what is considered acceptable and presentable in society. Additionally, bad decisions with painful repercussions tend to cause people to be good citizens and act in a way in a proper manner. Moreover, the aspects of my life that are influenced by my genetics (nature) are things that I cannot control like how fast I can run or how high I can jump or how fast I can solve puzzle. Learning is the acquisition of skill and knowledge through experience. Psychologists have discovered different ways in which we learn; among them, classical conditioning is considered one of the primary methods of behavioral learning. According to the psychology book â€Å"Discovering Psychology†, â€Å"Classical conditioning theory involves learning a new behavior via the process of association. In simple terms, two stimuli are linked together to produce a new learned response in a person or animal.† (Zimbardo, Johnson, Weber and Gruber, 2010). For example, I have a headache that makes me feel dizzy. In this example, the unconditioned stimulus is the headache and the unconditioned response is the response for my dizziness. This is the first of the three stages of classical conditioning known as before conditioning where the unconditioned