Aversives

sensitive when in a negative state and impulsivity would not play a factor. “Reinforcement sensitivity theory predicts that introverts, likely to be more anxious individuals, should be more sensitive to punishment due to their strong need to avoid aversive states. Like extraverts, highly impulsive individuals should be more sensitive to reward because of their strong need to experience positive states” (Feist, G., Feist, J., Roberts, 2013, p. 476). According to Corr these traits should act…

Marxism in Brave New World In a capitalist society, power is not distributed evenly. In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, cloning replaces natural conception and the amount of power they will have will be predestined for them within their own caste. This type of utopian society reflects Karl Marx’s theories of capitalism, where class struggle is the basis of one’s identity and their access to resources and power. In Brave New World, everyone is placed into a caste system, where Alphas,…

This was my first week at Penn Wood Elementary. This school has about 570 students grades K-5. There is one school nurse, Inez Burg, who is a certified school nurse that graduated from Villanova. On my first day, about 10 minutes after my arrival a 2nd grader came running into the bathroom throwing up. Supposedly a stomach bug had been going around the school and a lot of kids were getting sent home. Inez gave me a tour of the nurses office and showed me where she keeps all the medications and…

Articles of Criticism Slam poetry, like other art forms, is subject to criticism. Sarah Kay is no exception. Kay’s poetry has most commonly been analyzed for college classes, as the newer form of poetry is not as widely recognized or studied. The first article I studied was written by Hayden J, and explored the facets of Sarah’s theme throughout the poem, as well as concentrating on the tone of the poem. Hayden starts by talking of the impact of Kay’s performance. Kay’s performance shows the…

Lakshmi Sai Pratyusha Chamarti PSY 339 Description of Technique Differential reinforcement procedures are programs that are used to reinforce acceptable behavior in order to decrease the occurrence of undesirable behavior. Differential reinforcement also ensures that undesirable behavior is not reinforced. A range of problem behaviors, particularly self-injurious behavior is treated with differential reinforcement procedures. Summary of Research Differential reinforcement has several variations…

“directly experienc[ing] the traumatic event, witness[ing] the traumatic event in person, learn[ing] that the traumatic event occurred to a close family member or close friend,” and finally “experienc[ing] first-hand repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the traumatic event” (DSM-5). Deadpool fits into this criteria, since he has been subjected to long amounts of combat exposure, killing countless people himself, or seeing his body being dismembered , witnessing the dead bodies of…

aggressive behaviour. Those that were excluded gave someone who insulted them a more negative job evaluation. Moreover when a target had insulted the participants, participants in the excluded conditions blasted the target with higher levels of an aversive noise. However, participants who were excluded did not display more acts of aggression towards someone who praised them. This showed that emotion wasn’t the determining factor on whether aggressive behaviour was displayed but a person…

Male Adolescent Counselor For Logan River Academy Madness has existed in the human psyche from humanities earliest people. The idea of isolating those that are perceived as having poor mental health, or mad, is far from a new concept. Some of the earliest public institutions for those clinically insane dates back to the late 17th century (Porter, 2008). These early treatment institutions were far from ideal, often not much better than prisons at the time (Taylor, 2014). Treatment facilities have…

Seligman, a psychologist, once conducted an experiment for further research on classical conditioning. Using dogs and electrical shocks, he developed a new theory: learned helplessness. “Failure to take steps to avoid or escape from an unpleasant or aversive stimulus that occurs as a result of previous exposure to unavoidable painful stimuli.” (Morris, C.) In layman’s terms, the more we are exposed to negativity, the more likely we are to give into it; the more likely for it to consume us. But…

What is learning? Learning is acquiring something new or modifying existing knowledge through study, or experience. But why can learning sometimes be challenging and at other times be easy? To understand these phenomena, psychologists have identified three different principles of learning which are classical conditioning, operant conditioning and cognitive learning. Can behavior principals play a role in clinical hypnosis? In the following paragraph, we will evaluate the principles of…