Behavior

Many people have speculated the cause behind school shootings is mainly violent video games. No one ever thinks about other causes. The real problem may be much deeper than that. There are several ingredients that go into the cocktail of violence ,that is so prevalent in our society. When tragedy hits and horrific happenings occur, we scramble for a quick answer and a quick fix. The senseless tragedies that happen are unnecessary. It proves that catastrophes can strike anywhere and anytime. Our…

Farineau (2016), pointed out the importance of the ecological approach that helps to understand delinquent behaviors of youth in foster care. This article reviewed Brofenbrenner’s ecological theory. The author first introduced the behaviors of youths in foster care, and then provided an overview of the ecological theory. All levels of the system were discussed, and related to youths who are in the foster care. For instance, the author mentioned that the microsystem is the system which the youth…

trafficking in young adults. Social learning theory describes deviant behaviors or act by learning from one another via observation, modeling, imitation and reproduction. Most of the time this young adult grow up in an environment of drug trafficking. Social learning theory as I said before is learning by observing others behaviors and attitudes. These theories…

While reading the Case Study about the Phobia in the Nine Year old boy, I did see that they seven themes were found throughout the study. The boy clearly exhibited behaviors that needed to be controlled and that was very apparent throughout the study, thankfully he did get these issues sorted out. The first theme, Primacy of behavior was shown by throughout the study, I saw in in this example “A series of specific traumatic events commenced with Daniel 's near-drowning when five years old.…

called instrumental conditioning. What Thorndike found in this experiment is that when he placed a food deprived cat into a puzzle box, it would try to escape and find food by trial and error. After successive attempts, the haphazard trial and error behavior began to decrease and the cat would be found to escape quicker each time. He used many cats in his study, and while he did not notice a rapid improvement and learning curve, he did notice that each of the cats eventually learned what they…

PBIS or Positive Behavioral Interventions Support is a school wide practice conducted to target a specific behavior(s) and improve the behavioral by-product. At Higher Ground Academy I have ascertained to see what type of PBIS is applied throughout the school. As a result of this research study, I’ve concluded two outcomes. First, PBIS Is implemented but through a different name and labeled as simply, citizenship. Second, teachers import intervention instructions, assistance and materials via…

Application of the Social Cognitive Theory on Child Obesity The social cognitive theory (SCT) developed by Albert Bandura emphasizes how cognitive, behavioral, personal, and environmental factors interact to determine motivation and behavior (Crothers, Hughes, & Morine, 2008). The SCT is composed of four methods of goal realization: self-observation, self-evaluation, self-reaction and self-efficacy (Crothers, Hughes, & Morine, 2008). These factors are constantly influencing each other and used…

Individual health behavior theories focus on the thought processes individuals go through before taking health-related actions. Such theories, like the Health Belief Model (HBM) and Transtheoretical Model (TTM), can be used to explain breast cancer screening behavior. The HBM theory is centered on what motivates people to seek a health behavior. While the HBM is a “point in time” theory that focuses on changes in human behavior as a single process, the TTM theory recognizes that human behavior…

to make positive changes in their behaviors. This approach depends on operant conditioning principle which is a learning process by which a stimulus or antecedent event are introduced to evoke desired response that is immediately followed by a consequent event (i.e., reinforcement or punishment) to increase desired behaviors or decrease undesired one. Moreover, ABA concentrates on improving adaptive behaviors, communication, and language; reduction of behaviors that may negatively affect…

and changing human behavior, then one takes that the principles of social marketing have long been known, and that social marketing is not a completely new phenomenon. It was first introduced in literature in the 1970s when Philip Kotler and Gerald Zaltman realized that the same marketing principles which were being used to sell products to consumers could be used to market ideas, attitudes and behaviors. Social marketing seeks to influence and change harmful social behaviors into those which…