Behaviorism

Through Psychology 101, I have come to gain a clear understanding of the Biopsychosocial Framework. I have learned that the biopsychosocial framework is made up of three levels of analysis, and these three levels are biological, psychological, and social-cultural influences. Psychologists rely on the biopsychosocial framework because it gives them a more complete and clear understanding when they are studying a person’s behavior or mental processes. The Biopsychosocial framework results from the…

Intervention Summary Beck and Ellis would be considered the founding fathers of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). The numerous strategies that comprise CBT reflect its complex and integrative history and include conditioning, modeling, cognitive restructuring, problem solving, and the development of personal coping strategies, mastery, and a sense of self-control (Benjamin, Puleo, Settipani, Brodman, Edmunds, Cummings, & Kendall, 2002). Intervention looks at altering the environment (social)…

Summary A child in school has several behavior issues. A new BCBA was called into access the child. She believes the child needs medication for behavioral control. The BCBA talk to the school principle to let her know a functional analysis and a medical work-up would be recommended. She believes the child needs medication. The principle says the child cannot be managed in the school setting. She wants the child out of the school and moved to a special program. If the BCBA tells the principle…

Sociological and Psychological Theories Theories are useful tools that help us understand and explain the world around us. In criminology, it helps us understand the functioning of the criminal justice system and the actors in the system. Theories suggest how things are, not things as it should be. These are not inherently good or bad, however, they can be used in favor or against. A theory can try to explain the delinquency of large social unit or area, or it can try to explain the…

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can be utilized in many settings to benefit clients. It can be done face to face, and it is important to develop great rapport with the team involved with therapy. Cognitive behavior therapy encourages the use of metaphors, analogies and stories to help the therapeutic process, and benefits the clients who are involved in the process (Feltham, C. & Beck, 2013). Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on how individuals reason with thoughts, interpret life events,…

This study conducted by Charles R. Crow, Riley E. Hinson, and Shepard Sigel focused on conditioned tolerance to the hypothermic effects of alcohol in lab rats. Prior to this, research tested this conditioned tolerance to a few of moprhine’s effects and found that the environment where the rat receives the drug does in fact influence tolerance to drug effects. This current study conducted two separate experiments to gain insight into the importance of environmental stimuli in the conditioning…

In this report we will discuss Ferdinand Bernard Ueberwasser and his contribution to psychology with the placebo effect. We will discuss how he came to the discovery of the placebo effect, the placebo effect in practice, and its place in modern day psychology practices. We will review articles that have used the placebo effect in their studies and see how it played an effect in Keywords: placebo effect,  Your Full Title of Your Paper In this report we will discuss Ferdinand Bernard…

In this paper I will be talking about the different components of learning; classical conditioning, operant learning, and observational learning. Many may not know there are so many ways we learn. Our peers can classically condition us to act the way they would consider to be good behavior. Throughout our childhood and even now operant learning comes into play, like when we get a speeding ticket. And observational learning happens when you learn from watching others perform a certain task. Each…

“Psychology is the most interesting of all fields. It’s the most interesting because it’s about us. It’s about the most important and intimate aspects of our lives. It’s about our memory of things. It’s about our dreams, love and hate. It’s about morality, our sense of right and wrong. It’s about when things go wrong as in depression or anxiety. It’s about happiness. It’s about everything that happens to us.” ~ Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology – Yale…

There are three types of psychotherapy cognitive, humanistic, and behavioral. The cognitive treatment concentrates on what individuals think and how they prepare data instead of what they do. The humanistic treatment concentrates on the uniqueness of each person and it 's the likewise the study or investigations of the entire body and not only a particular part. The last type of psychotherapy is the behavioral and that is the center of the typical and anomalous practices furthermore the emphasis…