Aversives

Under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), drugs are categorized into five schedules based on “whether they have a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, their relative abuse potential, and [their] likelihood of causing dependence when abused” (Controlled). Among the five categories, marijuana is classified as the Schedule I Controlled Substances, which has “no currently accepted medical use in the United States, a lack of accepted safety for use [even] under medical…

In my paper I am going to explain the theories of operant and classical conditioning. Classical and operant conditioning are two main types of associative learning. Associative learning happens when we form associations or connections, among stimuli and behaviors. Associative learning helps us to foresee the future based on past experience and has survival advantages. For instance, if B happens, then C is more than likely to follow. There are also many other types of associative learning…

judgment of family members, and parental promiscuous behavior can promote adolescent risk-taking behavior (Music, 2013). There appears to be a detrimental interactive pattern in which the parent places demands upon the child who in turn responds with aversive behavior, arguing or yelling. When the parent attempts to suppress the situation, the child refuses to calm down or continues to behave aversively. It is believed that this type of constant conflictual communication in families is…

anything. The Civil Rights Movement in the 60s had a clear goal; end segregation. I would take a knee for that. Nowadays, bias news networks make it hard to know when one is even getting the real story or not, and the fight against problems like aversive racism are not very clear cut; we cannot get inside of someone’s mind to determine if they are racist, and they may not even know themselves. And with how fast things move these days, by the time I figure out what is actually happening, people…

Self-compassion is stretching out sympathy to one's self in occasions of saw insufficiency, disappointment, or general enduring. Kristin Neff (2003) has characterized self-compassion as being made out of three primary sub-components which are - self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness. A short definition of each of the sub-components is as follows: Self-kindness: Self-empathy involves being warm towards oneself when experiencing agony and individual inadequacies, as opposed to…

EMOTIONAL SELF-REGULATION Emotional self-regulation can be said to be extrinsic and intrinsic procedure responsible for observing, assessing and adjusting emotions. Emotional self-regulations belong to a wider set of emotions regulation process. This comprises the regulation of one’s own feeling and also the regulation of other people’s feelings. Emotional regulation can be seen to be a complex process that involves instigation, discouraging or regulating one’s state or behavior in a given…

Development of Aggression Most research found is based on aggression being learned at an early age. There are studies that state that there are specific pathways to aggression that begin in early childhood. There is research that suggest at least 8 pathways that contribute to the behavior but only 3 will be explained: individual factors, the impact to exposure of violence (aggressive acts), and parenting practices. These pathways of this behavior will explain the varying ways that children…

Outline 1- Definitions: a) The frustration of not achieving a goal and antagonistic and annoying actions like offenses, gashes and blusters are definitely led to anger. b) Unlike other aversive emotions such as grief and fear, which include suppression and retreat, Dagleish identifies anger as a negative emotion, but includes a positive approach. c) Cox and Harrison simply define the structure of anger as a multidimensional one with different influential and cognitive dimensions and various…

“My true disability is not having to be in wheelchair. It’s having to be without her.” That is just one inspirational quote that came from the incredible movie The Intouchables. To summarize, the movie is two man who have lost the purpose of life. First man was named Driss, he had lost his way in the streets wanted to collect from the government and to do so he needed a few jobs to sign a paper claiming he didn’t have the qualifications to be hired. This was how he met the other man who needed…

Technology Pitfalls: Bored Out of Our Mind, Body and Spirit “Boredom is your mind and body’s way of telling you you’re not living up to your potential.” - Hal Sparks Researcher John Eastwood (York University, Ontario) and colleagues define boredom as "an aversive state of wanting, but being unable, to engage in satisfying activity" (Rader 1). There is good and bad in everything and boredom is no exception. Boredom has become pervasive in response to technology, this technology induced boredom…