Your Swimming Buddy Mark Jumped into a Pool Parallel to the Water

question 37

Essay

Your swimming buddy Mark jumped into a pool parallel to the water surface.When he stood up,he yelled "ouch" and you noticed that the skin on his chest and belly looked red and irritated.How would you describe the properties of water to explain to Mark why this happened? Why doesn't it hurt when pool water is penetrated perpendicular to the surface,as with a hands-first or feet-first dive?

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Definitions:

Puzzle Boxes

Experimental devices used in animal learning research, where an animal must solve a problem or manipulate mechanisms to escape or obtain a reward.

Thorndike

An American psychologist who developed the law of effect, which states that behaviors followed by positive outcomes are likely to be repeated, while those followed by negative outcomes are not.

Skinner Box

An experimental apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for studying behavioral conditioning in animals, particularly through the use of reinforcements.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment, a concept introduced by B.F. Skinner.