Aversives

Police officers are continuously under a large amount of scrutiny due to the amount of power individuals in this career possess (Taslitz, 2010). Law enforcement officers, while they are highly trained, have their individual decision making altered by external factors. These factors in particular causes a major discrepancy in the criminal justice system on how to avoid and neutralize bias influences (Kang, Bennett, Carbado, Casey, Dasgupta, Faigman &Mnookin, 2012). These biases can be both…

Jealousy can be defined as an aversive response that occurs because of a partner’s real, imagine, or likely involvement with a third person. When someone in a relationship becomes jealous, it often times can lead to a falling out within the relationship; trust is lost and the relationship…

Anxiety Disorders remain a major factor in diagnoses of individuals in the mental health field today. Anxiety can serve as the main diagnosis, but is often seen as a comorbidity to other disorders as well. The movie “As Good as it Gets” along with the article “Perceived Functions of Worry Among Generalized Anxiety Disorder Subjects: Distraction from More Emotionally Distressing Topics?” introduce implications to the understanding of anxiety disorders. The article brings up one rather important…

comes to be a realization of the thoughts and emotional states that individuals have themselves created. Often, they can gauge their confidence by the emotional state they experience as they contemplate an action. Moreover, when people experience aversive thoughts and fears about their capabilities, those negative affective reactions can themselves further lower perceptions of capability and trigger the stress and agitation that help ensure the inadequate performance they fear. This is not to…

performed a pictorial and linguistic spider Stroop task. Spider-phobic participants showed a marked bias for threat. However, this bias was similar for pictures and for words, although the spider-phobic group evaluated the pictures as being more aversive. The results suggest that automatic…

grace. With this understanding, I felt like I could finally connect to the texts discussed and felt as though the perspective of the Romans and Paul, given by Agamben, was very enriching in feeling ethos towards his people, even though Agamben had an aversive way of getting his point…

defined as a racial discrimination that is hard to notice. According to Shabbir et al., (2013) found in their study that “subtle racial is bias in which is racism that operates below the threshold of awareness. Subsequently called modern racism, aversive racism, and ambivalent racism, subtle racial bias have become synonymous with covert racism, which refers to ‘‘those subtle and subversive practices, policies and norms utilized to mask structural racial apparatus”. Therefore, subtle racist…

subjects received. Researchers who study the impact of prenatal stress on human fetuses are relegated to utilizing less intrusive experimental designs such as the Stroop Color-Word test. While it may provide physiological arousal, it is by no means as aversive as being continuously restrained, one of the stressors used on the rodents. Thus, the effects on the fetus would not be comparable to those of the…

At first I couldn’t see how the different readings were related but then I thought a little deeper. I came upon the conclusion that the different fields used to study the mind seem to be plastic and malleable, ever changing. Some changes were great and others seemed to set us back as a society. Certain situations made great strides but established individuals seemed to hamper them. Your see this in the writings from Benjamin (2006) regarding Mary Calkins. The Grob (2008) chapter demonstrated…

either they way or well, they way. In addition marijuana is legalized because they believe it enhances their spiritual growths ascension and in essence leads to the motivation for they utopian mindset which I assume is probably the reason behind the aversive response to problems like heavy rates of deforestation; coastal waters polluted by industrial waste, sewage, and oil spills; damage to coral reefs; air pollution in Kingston from vehicle emissions. Among the government agencies charged…