Behavior

He lives in a quiet suburb in New Jersey with his Mom and Dad, who are of Hispanic descent. He is an only child and he has two pets - a dog and a bird. The theories of Piaget and Vygotsky relate to his behavior and learning capabilities. According to Piaget, children go through cognitive developmental stages. Children go through the following stages: sensorimotor from birth through two years old, pre-operational from two through seven years old, concrete…

Explain, briefly the science of psychology. The science of psychology is the study of the mental processes and behavior. The mental processes include intelligence, memory and problem solving. While the behavior includes feelings, actions, and biological states. The reason why psychology is considered a science is because they use the scientific methods to test the ideas about behavior. 3.Name some of the scientific research methods Some of the scientific research methods include a survey and…

Autism is becoming more prevalent in the US. According to the CDC “Approximately 1 in 68 children in the United States has an Autism Spectrum Disorder”. Boys are more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls. Most children with autism are affected by tooth decay and other dental diseases. Childhood tooth decay is the #1 chronic children disease. Tooth decay doesn’t just affect children with special needs but the general population. Not all children with autism are getting the proper oral…

especially for children and adolescents. When I introduced myself to Caleb and he made no eye contact, I was not remotely surprised. Disappointingly, this behavior persisted throughout the entire session and were accompanied by some other deficits in communication, social interaction, as well as repetitive and stereotyped behavior. These behaviors persisted in such a way by the completion of our session, I decided to give Caleb a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Even shy people will…

help students succeed in their abilities, however I would reinforce regular changes to groups in order to establish new relationships and a mixture of high and low academic students which would allow the students to teach and learn from each other. Behavior levels with learning levels, I have found that the lower leveled group is a group of boys who do not work well together so you alter this issue I would separate them throughout all the groups in the class and give them slightly different…

just made up of conscious elements but looks into “why behavior and mental processes worked in particular way.” (pg. 12). It was believed that behavior is purposeful…

Watson about psychology and how it is viewed as a natural science. This analysis also elaborates Watson’s goals and why he believed that behaviorism could be controlled. The experiment performed by Watson is identified and used to attempt controlling behavior. The results stray far from Watson’s intentions, but is sufficient for his studies. During the article summary, two articles will be used to interpret Watson’s article as a whole and will recommend future research for observations.…

observe the models and learn new behavior as a result of those observations. In essence observational learning is an indirect kind of learning (Ashford and LeCroy, 2010 p.101)”. In support of the social learning theory, Bandura and his colleagues developed an experiment utilizing children. During this experiment Bandura and his team divided children into two groups. In one group children viewed a movie which included a great deal of violence and aggressive behavior and in the other group the…

Observational learning is defined in our book as “resulting from people observing and modeling behavior of others and noting the consequences of that behavior”. It is also known as social learning theory. Observational learning can affect the persons life, but they can also learn from it. There are four conditions for observational learning that I will be going through along with how my personal upbringing has been affected by observational learning. The first condition is attention. In our…

From the news, Michael Muthukrishna , PhD from UBC's department of psychology propose that people are conformist , by copying others's behavior , world become good because those behavior are mostly useful and helpful. Sometimes , people don't know the concept about the behavior. But they know that it is good for them. For instance, wash hand after using restroom. Conformity is good to the society , people by learning others and observing others , to provide a safety society. We don't want…