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Topics p.4 (Ben, Alan, Megan, Blaine (Anxiety (As Grandin was growing up…

- - - - For example, "When I reached adolescence, I was hit by a tidal wave of anxiety that never stopped. It was the same level of anxiety I felt later on when I was defending my dissertation in front of my thesis committee, only I felt that way all day and all night, too. (Grandin p.1)
  - - - For instance, "Behavior Therapy just meant classical operant conditioning, having the kids go over and over the behaviors Dr. Lovaas wanted them to learn and giving them rewards whenever they got something right,"(Grandin 13).
  - - - For example, "You weren't supposed to speculate about what was inside a person's or animal's head because you couldn't measure all the stuff inside the black box." (Grandin p.9)
- - - - she writes about using animal talents and intelligence for the betterment of humans and animals.
  - - - Dr. Lovaas says," ..Published results showing that half of the kids who got the intensive therapy became "indistinguishable" from normal kids". (Grandin 13) He says that behavior therapy will help autistic kids get through day by day in life.
- - - - she had emotional problems because the kids would make fun of her and call her names but then moved to a boarding school where she found out the horses as well had emotional problems
- - - - Grandin stated, "People who love animals and who spend a lot of time with animals often start to feel inutility"
- - - - "Because of my own problems I've always followed neuroscientific research on the human brain." (Grandin 7)
  - - - "In his most famous study, he took a group of very young autistic kids and gave one half of the kids intensive behavior therapy while the other class got much less intensive behavior treatment" (Grandin 13)
- - - - "Autism made school and social life hard, but it made animals easy" (Grandin 1).
  - - - "Both the ethologists and the behaviorists were in total agreement that practically the worst thing anyone could probably do was to anthromorphize an animal" (Grandin 14).
- - - - We have service dogs for the blind-how about service dogs for the middle-aged whose memories are going? ( 8 Grandlin)
  - - - "Positive reinforcement something good happens to you because your receive it".( 9 Grandin)
- - - - Grandin states that if you did ride Goldie (the horses) she would work herself into an absolute sweat, She was terrified of being ridden.
- - - - She states, " Normal people never have the special talents animals have, so normal people don't know what to look for" (Grandin 8).