In this paper, I will argue for objectivity being the best way to know the truth about (material/physical) reality. Objectivity can be defined as knowledge coming from what can be seen, touched, or observed scientifically in space and time by the material body (including the brain). The truth about reality needs to be supported by some logical explanation, data, or fact, which is provided through objectivity. Science is known as a subject that involves experimenting to find a "truth." Most of what we know about the earth and our bodies come from historical experiments and discoveries. Without gathering facts and data, we are not able to have the knowledge to find the truth to our reality. I find the study of human behavior and mind to be very interesting as it explores the truth about humans, which is what led me to choose psychology as my major. Most of what I learn in my psychology class has some history of being tested or experimented in the past to prove that it is true and that it can be used in the future as a knowledgeable source. For example, last week I learned about classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is part of the behavioral learning theory and occurs in all species. Classical conditioning shows us the truth about our reflexes as it is explained as the procedure by which a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus. Many automatic/involuntary responses besides salivation have been classically conditioned (e.g. our heartbeat, stomach secretions, blood pressure, reflexive movements, blinking, and muscle contractions).
At the start of the twentieth century, a Russian physiologist named Ivan Pavlov was studying salivation in dogs as part of a research program on digestion. Pavlov became intrigued when he noticed that the dogs that were deprived of food began to salivate when one of his assistants walked into the room with food. This salivary response that had been created was clearly not inborn, so it must have been acquired through experience.
