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Organisational Psychology 2023 students

You learn


Hunter Ludlam


In the song 'You Learn', I think Alanis Morissette is suggesting that operant conditioning is the most effective way of learning, compared with other forms such as social learning theory. In her song, she says things such as "You live, you learn. You love, you learn. You cry, you learn." This suggests you learn more from personal experiences through reinforcers and punishments rather than just watching others. You need to go through it yourself.


Keegan Tosland


Motivating employees can be done by multiple actions including setting achievable goals and celebrating progress. These feelings could also be achievable by a well written and sung, song such as “you learn” the idea that I got from the song is talking about even mistakes can give you new opportunities to learn and grow. This can relate to a work environment where you can also learn and grow from your mistakes. The main chorus of the song “you live, you learn, you love, you learn” is another way of saying every aspect of life you may make mistakes but these will teach you important lessons and to continue.


Elise Young


The lyrics can be directly related to one approach to assessing performance: output criteria. Alanis Morissette says you can "learn" from vague actions like "biting off more than you can chew" and "sticking your foot in your mouth". The lyrics communicate the challenges of using output criteria, where the specific output is unclear. Some of the lyrics fail to take situational effects into account, for example, "walking around naked in your living room" may teach you to be more considerate of the other people you live with, but you may also scar your flatmates for life.

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