How Behaviour Can Be Learned and Unlearned Through the Principals of Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, and Observational Learning.
The following essay explains how the principals of classical and operant conditioning, with the aid of a case study, explain how a young woman named Sesy may have learned her addiction to Nyaope. It discusses how operant and classical conditioning may be used to end Sesy’s learned addiction and follows with an argument expressing why observational learning might better explain Sesy’s learned addiction towards the drug Nyaope. Ethical limitations that might constrain some of the proposed actions mentioned in the essay to end Sesy’s addiction are revealed.
Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, according …show more content…
How then, can the principals of operant and classical conditioning be used to explain how to end Sesy’s learned addiction?
Extinction in Operant conditioning can be defined as whenever previously available reinforcement after the response is no longer available thus resulting in a gradual weakening or disappearance in that response tendency. Weiten (2014, pg. 238)
When Sesy and her family started to do research on methods on how to deal with trying to help Sesy with her addiction. Sesy got admitted into a hospital for a period of two weeks. (Middleburg Observer, October 18,2014). Sesy was cut off from access to obtaining Nyaope. There eventually was a gradual weakening of the response to the drug when Sesy got admitted into the hospital.
Extinction in classical conditioning can be described as also the gradual weakening or disappearance of a response Weiten (2014, pg. 231). When the conditioned stimulus like money, is constantly presented alone without the unconditioned stimulus, the Nyaope drug over a period there will be a gradual weakening and hopefully disappearance to the conditioned response of her wanting to use money to want to buy …show more content…
The essay goes on to explain some of the ethical limitations with reference to an article titled “Social control and coercion in addiction treatment treatment: towards evidence-based policy and practice”.
The article talks about how social pressure is a big contributing factor to the process of individuals seeking addiction treatment and how many of the policies and programmes that are offered for addiction treatment are guided by the overemphasizing of the use of the criminal justice system to compel people to go into the treatment centres and follow the treatment program. Many of the policies and programmes do not consider the views of the actual people going into the programme, the views of the public and the views of the actual treatment providers. (Wild, 2006).
One of the implicit assumptions made in the article about social control and coercion was that when individuals are coerced into treatment facilities, treatment facilities tend to ignore the unintended negative consequences that are accompanied with cohesion. As an example, some treatment facilities do not allow their patients to have visitors at all during their
The following essay explains how the principals of classical and operant conditioning, with the aid of a case study, explain how a young woman named Sesy may have learned her addiction to Nyaope. It discusses how operant and classical conditioning may be used to end Sesy’s learned addiction and follows with an argument expressing why observational learning might better explain Sesy’s learned addiction towards the drug Nyaope. Ethical limitations that might constrain some of the proposed actions mentioned in the essay to end Sesy’s addiction are revealed.
Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, according …show more content…
How then, can the principals of operant and classical conditioning be used to explain how to end Sesy’s learned addiction?
Extinction in Operant conditioning can be defined as whenever previously available reinforcement after the response is no longer available thus resulting in a gradual weakening or disappearance in that response tendency. Weiten (2014, pg. 238)
When Sesy and her family started to do research on methods on how to deal with trying to help Sesy with her addiction. Sesy got admitted into a hospital for a period of two weeks. (Middleburg Observer, October 18,2014). Sesy was cut off from access to obtaining Nyaope. There eventually was a gradual weakening of the response to the drug when Sesy got admitted into the hospital.
Extinction in classical conditioning can be described as also the gradual weakening or disappearance of a response Weiten (2014, pg. 231). When the conditioned stimulus like money, is constantly presented alone without the unconditioned stimulus, the Nyaope drug over a period there will be a gradual weakening and hopefully disappearance to the conditioned response of her wanting to use money to want to buy …show more content…
The essay goes on to explain some of the ethical limitations with reference to an article titled “Social control and coercion in addiction treatment treatment: towards evidence-based policy and practice”.
The article talks about how social pressure is a big contributing factor to the process of individuals seeking addiction treatment and how many of the policies and programmes that are offered for addiction treatment are guided by the overemphasizing of the use of the criminal justice system to compel people to go into the treatment centres and follow the treatment program. Many of the policies and programmes do not consider the views of the actual people going into the programme, the views of the public and the views of the actual treatment providers. (Wild, 2006).
One of the implicit assumptions made in the article about social control and coercion was that when individuals are coerced into treatment facilities, treatment facilities tend to ignore the unintended negative consequences that are accompanied with cohesion. As an example, some treatment facilities do not allow their patients to have visitors at all during their