Behaviorism

Classical Conditioning is a type of learning that pairs a stimulus that would cause a predictable reaction with a stimulus that causes a neutral reaction, in the hopes that the neutral stimulus with invoke the response of the previous stimulus. The unconditioned stimulus will cause the unconditioned response without any need to condition it. The unconditioned stimulus will always produce the unconditioned response. The neutral stimulus will have a neutral reaction. This is crucial, seeing as how…

My client has suffered the last four years of her life, with a horrible smoking problem. This problem interferes with all that she does. She cannot work, because it causes her to smoke. She’d rather be in her house, watching some TV, where she has the option to smoke at any time. My client has no past of smoking, or any other drug use. She is the only one around with a problem like this. Smoking causes people to not only have bad coughs, but it causes lung cancer, and many other kinds of cancers…

I’ve got some crazy hungry cats. They crave wet food. Any time they hear the sound of the can being opened they immediately run to the kitchen, start to whine, and jump on the counter where they know it is going to be prepared. If they can’t hear the sound, it’s the smell that grabs their attention, but they usually keep an ear open for it, as it is the most exciting part of their day. Their meows and rubs against my leg seem to be their way of telling me to hurry up, as if that would speed up…

In Psychology there are many different approaches that offer explanations into the human mind and behaviour looking specifically at psychological processes, thoughts, feelings and motivations behind these behaviours. These main approaches are biological, behavioural, psychodynamic and cognitive. In addition to these explanations there is an argument within psychology that debates if physiological aspects or environmental aspects determine our behaviour, known as the nature versus nurture debate…

I’ve got a god awful habit that I just can’t seem to shake. In my family, nail biting could be considered hereditary. Everyone in my family bites their nails, even my 4 year old cousin Elias has been plagued with this monster, and for reasons that were unknown until this assignment came up. As a child, my mother was always so hypocritical of me biting my nails, always claiming that I was going to have a huge ball of nails in my stomach. Being a easily fascinated child, her words had the opposite…

This week I wanted to talk a little more about Pavlov. I find Pavlov and his research very interesting, and I find it even more interesting that people only think of Pavlov for his theories of conditioning. There are many more things that make up Pavlov’s contribution to psychology, including other psychologists that we would not even know about without Pavlov. This topic fits into this class because the entire section of 3.2 is about Pavlov. I am hoping that this will bring up some new…

I will be looking at the strengths and limitations of two different types of psychological approaches when used for research. The two approaches that I will be looking at are the Psychodynamic Approach as well as the Behaviourist approach. Firstly I will be looking at the Psychodynamic Approach. A strength of using this approach is that although it and a lot of its practises are seen as highly controversial it has had great influence on the world of psychology. An example of this would be the…

The purpose of this article is to describe essential features of a schoolwide proactive management system, Effective Behavioral Support (EBS). The EBS approach focuses on enhancing schools’ capacity to adopt and sustain effective practices for all students through: team-based problem solving and planning, administrator and staff commitment and support, systematic assessment of disciplinary practices and processes, careful action planning, ongoing staff development, and data-based decision making…

Issues regarding sex offenders can be found at all levels of the correctional system. During entry and housing in jails while waiting sentencing, to housing in prisons, and then again when a sex offender enters probation or parole. Leaders in the corrections field have closely worked with psychology experts to find a viable solution on a multitude of problems these specific offenders pose. One of the problem area’s solutions is the concept of behavior modification. Behavior modification is…

This paper will discuss the case scenario involving a single mother named Sylvia who seems to be suffering from major depression. Major depression can be an awful and debilitating disorder for some individuals to deal with. She is feeling isolated and undesirable and these feelings can lead to a dark road that can, eventually, if not treated, turn into suicidal thoughts or actions. Fortunately, because of modern psychology, there are specific methods and techniques that are mentioned below that…