Aversives

Alcohol use disorders affect families across the world without discrimination. One in every three families in the United States are directly affected by alcoholism (Sullivan 3). Alcoholism, more generically drug addiction, can be defined as “a chronically relapsing disorder characterized by a compulsion to seek and take the drug, alcohol; loss of control in limiting intake, of alcohol; and an emergence of a negative emotional state when the drug, alcohol, is prevented” (Sullivan 33). Normal…

discovers the possible downsides to it at a tender age. Furthermore, a teenage girl living with parents may find it even more difficult to cope with pregnancy for she will be drawn by the guilt of having let her parents down. “Besides, most families are aversive to the idea of teenage pregnancy and instead of supporting the child, end up throwing unfriendly and disturbing remarks”(Family change during an unwed teenage pregnancy, 1994). This makes the pregnant teenager experience hostility from…

We live in a world where physical appearance is more important than health. Men and women look at magazines and TV commercials on a daily basis and they sadly compare themselves with models making them feel insecure and unconfident throughout their life. Looking at models or celebrities and feeling judged by society, they want to do whatever it takes to look like them causing damage to their bodies and health. Some people are blessed enough to have money and undergo plastic surgery to fix their…

In the film adaptation of the play, Glengarry Glen Ross, written by David Mamet, the central themes such as management style, business ethics, and identity play an important role in the business aspects of salesmen. Management style is the occurrence of motivation, instructions, and plans to benefit the employees and the business. Business ethics are a type of applied ethical principles in a business setting. Identity in business could be perceived as the success, the failure, or the meaning of…

situation on an assortment of results if guardians in relational unions were separated than if they stayed wedded. At the point when the contention between guardians is exceptional, interminable, and unmistakable, separately speaks to escape from an aversive home environment for youngsters. Just a minority of separations, be that as it may, have all the earmarks of being gone before by an abnormal state of ceaseless conjugal clash (Amato, 1997). Consequently, separate presumably helps fewer kids…

In Landau’s book, The Fundamentals of Ethics, Chapter seven focuses on psychological egoism. The backbone of this theory is that all human actions are driven by human’s egotistical desires. Landau defends this theory by stating, “Psychological egoism is a theory about human motivation: it tells us that our only motivation is to make ourselves better off.” (Landau 106) This means in order for someone to adopt this theory they must believe that even trivial events that seem very altruistic are…

Through the development and emergence of cognitive behavioral therapy as—disputably—the most effective and empirically validated psychotherapy, CBT has been discovered to have many strengths as well as some challenges (Spiegler, 2010). Undoubtedly, CBT has had plenty of success in treating a host of different psychological disorders as well as success in treating people from a variety of diverse backgrounds. CBT has proven to be not just an effective means of treating psychological disorder but…

“The relationship between problem behavior and academic difficulties is complex, and some researchers have hypothesized that the classroom behavior problems of students with E/BD are responses to aversive stimuli, namely ineffective academic instruction and/or difficult tasks. The authors suggest that learned helplessness might further explain some of the academic and behavioral deficits that characterize students with E/BD” (Sutherland, K. S., &…

this article is filled with emotional phrases, but the one I found wasn’t very emotional it was “interesting” and it was located in the paragraph talking about “hitting the wall”. You could say that hitting the wall is a physiological response to an aversive situation that requires physical activity. It is when the runners hit that physical and mental exhaust button and they feel like they can’t do it anymore. So the sentence that I found said that “elite runners used more associative cognitive…

The introduction of the article opened with a statement that racial privilege still exists in America. Phillips and Lowery (2015) identify Caucasians as the most privileged of all races. They claimed that whites had better earnings (Hao, 2011) greater life expectancy (Bleich, Jarlenski, Bell, & LaVeist, 2012) better access to health care (Smedley, Stith, & Nelson, 2003) and high-quality education (Rumberger, 2010) than other races, specifically African-Americans. As a result of their view of…