Behaviorism

Throughout psychotherapy, there are three different forms which are known as the cognitive, humanistic, and behavioral forms. These psychotherapy theories help psychologists guide them through the process of understanding their clients and their problems; therefore, they help develop some type of solution. The first method or approach had many information which was contributed by Ivan Pavlov which is known as the behavioral form. This method focused on developing both abnormal and normal…

Jaida Marks Mrs. Pangaio Honors Anatomy and Physiology 3 September 2015 Shivering when you get cold or sweating when you are hot, are both very common examples of your body trying to maintain homeostasis. Homeostasis is the ability of your body to maintain stable internal conditions when faced with environmental changes. Sometimes there can be a stimulus in the environment that will cause changes to an organism's stable internal conditions. This results in the organism responding using…

The “behavioral manipulation” hypothesis proposes that a parasite can alter the behavior of a host in a way that will improve its chances of being retransmitted, without changing other innate behaviors. It has been hypothesized that T. gondii has evolved to specifically manipulate the behavior of rodents, its ideal secondary host, in order to improve its chances of being acquired by its definitive host, felines. Indeed, infection in mice and rats specifically abolishes innate fear of cat urine…

Hogan, Knez, and Kahng (2014), used BST to improve staff’s implementation of behavioral intervention plans (BIP) in a nonpublic day school for children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Four instructional staff participated and were responsible for assisting their assigned student with academic programing while implementing the student’s BIP. BST was used to teach the instructional staff to correctly implement three main components of the student’s BIP. For student A, treatment…

The article primarily focused on the contributions Pavlov made to behaviour therapy. It was argued that of all of Pavlov’s theoretical principles, the conditioning paradigms were the most influential to the establishment of behaviour therapy. The article outlined the Pavlovian origins of behaviour therapy, highlighting that Pavlov’s conditioning process could not only produce but eliminate neurotic behaviours. It was argued that the conditioning process of eliminating the neurotic behaviour,…

Natural Environment Teaching (NET) uses the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to teach in the natural environment (the real world). Some people that are not familiar with ABA would not find it weird to not teach a child with ASD outside of teaching them in a natural setting, but most ABA therapist rather not teach outside a controlled setting, to sum it up they are not comfortable doing so. This in my opinion will have some serious ramifications. An ABA therapist objective is to…

B.F. Skinner described Operant Conditioning as changes in behavior to be determined by an individual's response to events (stimuli) in a given environment. The actions of an individual is called a response, and when a desired stimulus response is reinforced the individual may respond in a certain way. In Operant Conditioning there are two different types of reinforcement, positive and negative. Positive Reinforcement (reward) involves presenting a motivating object/item to a person after the…

ABA interventions/treatments For the purpose of the research, we will be looking at three different forms of treatments that have been studied to show that they are not only useful in teaching behavioral skills but also can be used in academic development. 1. Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention is a treatment that used at a young age (four years or younger). Autistic children who enter this treatment spend 20-40 hours per week with…

In this study Browin Bandelow, Reinhard J. Boerner, Siegfried Kasper, Michael Linden, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, and Hans-Jürgen Möller examine different forms of treatment for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). They begin by mentioning the most common and recognizable symptoms of GAD. They then breakdown the possible causes of the disorder in children. The main focus of the paper is to inform you on the positives and negatives of different treatments. The first treatment talked about is cognitive…

Behavioral Theory emphasizes that learning occurs based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning. In this theory they believe our interactions with the environment help play a role in shaping our actions. This is where behaviorists believe that anyone can potentially learn by observing others, regardless of personality traits, genetic backgrounds and internal thoughts the only thing required is the right conditioning. In order for a new behavior to be modeled the…