Adaptive Behavior

In the article, The Lucifer Effect, by Philip Zimbardo, he analyzes the likelihood for individuals to deviate from “normal” behavior as consequence of the Power of The Situation. He suggest that individuals have the potential to be both good or evil and the line between them is permeable and susceptible to change depending on various situations. On of the focal points in his research is the Stanford experiment. This experiment intended to investigate the tendency of people fulfilling society’s…

Compare and Contrast Two Famous Educators using APA Style Piaget’s Theory Piaget’s theory is mainly based on the idea that individuals acquire knowledge on their own, individually, without the help of anyone (Bruner, 1997; Forman, 1992; Tappan, 1997). For Piaget (1983, 1985; Piaget & Inheler, 1969), the individual’s action and its coordinations are regarded as the main factor responsible for his/her own growth, cognizance and understanding. Put differently, his theory includes the concept of…

To better understand someone there are many psychological theories that can help. Psychological theories can help someone understand what phase that they fall under and help them guide themselves to live life in a way they would like. It is important that we understand psychological theories because it helps us understand what stage we are in our lives and what stages we had gone through and will eventually go through. In the article “Secret Latina at Large” by Veronica Chambers, she talks…

Personality traits can be considered as a reasonably constant attribute that triggers individuals to behave in certain manners. Most personality traits naturally vary from occasion to occasion, but would maintain a core consistency which defines the individual’s “true nature”. (Matthews, Deary & Whiteman, 2003) Social influences on the other hand, is the action that was brought about through obeying authority figures such as our parents, police, teachers and politicians and by conforming to…

behaviorist viewpoint was radically opposed to the psychoanalytic school and proposed that behavior is generated outside the person through various environmental or situational stimuli. Therefore, Watson theorized, emotional responses exist in us because we have been conditioned to respond emotionally to certain stimuli in the environment. In other words, we learn our emotional reactions. Watson believed that all human behavior was a product of learning and conditioning, as he proclaimed in his…

is always on the right works well in this setting. My behavior does not mean I don’t get angered by rudeness by some of my customers, but I have to hide it to ensure the protection of our relationship and protect the name of the hotel. An image of a polite, humble and patient individual is created which is very different when I am spending time with my…

What is Autism? According to google, “a mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts”. I believe that in the deeper meaning that is wrong, Autism is a unique ability to acquire and create new skills in life that no one else can, a superpower. Damian, my brother, goes through many obstacles in his life and I am there through each and every one of them, I love…

produce the ‘v’ sound among other fricatives because of the generalization of the therapy for the error produced. In summary, generalization is the correct production of sounds that are not targeted for treatment, but are produced correctly due to the behaviors that come from the error sounds that are being…

What is Strategic Family Therapy? Refined and mastered by Jay Haley, Strategic Family Therapy (STF) is a form therapy that seeks to address specific problems in a shorter period of time unlike other forms intensive therapeutic treatments. However, it is considered as one of the major treatment models of both family and brief psychotherapy. The major difference in this style of therapy compared to others is that the therapist takes the role of responsibility. The Mental Research Institute…

From a behavioral therapy standpoint people are seen as neither good or bad but rather a product of their environment, (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). According to behaviorists, behavior is learned through the surrounding environment and those learned behaviors are repeated when an incentive follows the action. Behaviorists generalize information about humans from observing animals, although they acknowledge that humans are much more complex (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). The basis for behavioral…