Compulsive behavior

Main premises standing behind the science of psychology are an explanation and differentiation between a normal and abnormal behaviour. The way how a society perceived and described the abnormal behaviour has been evaluating throughout the years. Although, these days, two of the most popular models deserve a particular attention. The first one called the biological approach, believes that the abnormal behaviour has its source in a physical difficulties. Second one, the behaviourist approach…

The counselors are not informed on what kinds of punishment are good for the students and what good reinforcement are. The students are always being punished for things that are the way the child acts. “Students should never be punished for behaviors that they cannot help” (What every teacher, N.D.). This should be plastered on the walls here. The counselors are very quick to yell and punish children for the way their brain is wired. As an educator, I will have to remember this quote. As humans…

simple; find out why people do what they do. Social psychologists are curious about finding out why people function, and how they behave in different types of everyday situations and settings. Different situations bring out various reactions and behaviors in people. Some settings may bring forth a person to act with joy and excitement other settings may bring a person to act out in anger and violence. For example when most individuals are faced with outrage they respond with violence…

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is the third wave of behaviour therapy (Öst, 2008; Hayes, 2004), which has some different focal points from traditional behaviour therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy. Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on discussing and changing an individual’s thoughts and the focal points also include the function of problematic cognition rather than the content of private experiences; whereas, traditional behaviour therapy focuses on observable and…

Operant Conditioning Theory (Operant Conditioning) – Callum Arnold The Operant conditioning theory is an example of a connectionist theory of learning, relying upon the connection between a stimulus and a response. These may also be known as a S-R theories. This theory states that we become conditioned to give a particular response to a particular stimulus; that we have learned to act in a certain way given a certain stimulus. The likelihood of the response is dependent upon the strength of the…

Aggression, has been the representation of something diabolical, and destructive for humans and animals as we know it. But what is the cause of aggression; is it instinct, the means of self defense, and sexual reproduction (Konrad Lorenz), or is it a trait learned through reinforcement and punishment (E.O Wilson)? Humans have learned to repress their behaviour to comply to the society, does this make them different compared to animals? Pushed to the limits, is when aggression becomes exposed.…

If we understand that the child is active, rather than passive participants within their environment, then we can develop strategies which focus on the current level of development, rather than focus only on the behaviors. For example, if we have a child who is having difficulties with paying attention in class and having the inability to empathize with others, we might assume that the child may be in the egocentric stage of development and hasn’t yet move onto the…

Personality Formation: This should be about two paragraphs discussing the key concepts of the theory and how they relate to personality development. Do not just list! According to the behaviorist approach, theorists see personality as part of a learned behaviors attained by either classical or operant conditioning, (Kagan, 2001). Classical conditioning is the process by which a stimulus that in the beginning is neutral ultimately elicits a strong response. This occurs because the neutral…

settings participate in the molding future criminal behavior.Lack of parental rejection, parent-child connection and parental supervision are reliable signs of felonious behavior. Child care that contains conflicting, incompatible, compliant disciplinary or extremely liberal techniques of punishment also add to the risk of criminal behavior. Research has proven that undesired and young pregnancies generate extremely threating factors that contribute to delinquency. Unproductive parenting…

constructivism and behaviorism. Cognitivism attempts to explain human behavior by understanding your thought processes. Constructivism says that people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences. Behaviorism is a theory that assumes a learner is passive, only responding to environmental stimuli. The learner starts off as a clean slate and behavior is shaped through positive reinforcement or negative…