Functional psychology

they are two very important benefits of behavior psychology. although they both are concepts of learning the two have slightly different processes. it would be hard to understand the concept of both behavioral techniques if you do not know the difference between both classical and operant conditioning. operant…

From the very beginning we have always been told sleep is a very important part of our daily routine and being sleep deprivation can cause many health problems. However new findings that have been recently in the ‘Journal of Neuroscience’ now tell us that sleep deprivation not only helps the brain loose its sense of proportion but also what is important. A research led by Prof. Talma Hendler of Tel Aviv University’s (TAU’s) Psychological Sciences and graduate student Eti Ben-Simon was…

Opening Skinner’s Box We all know that authority has a huge impact in our lives, but how far can authority push a person to do something they do not necessarily want to do. However they still obey authority’s rules because that’s how we have all been taught. As I was reading this novel I came to find out that most of authority figures can push a person so far that they would harm another human being. In the begging of Opening Skinner’s Box author Lauren Slater introduced a psychologist and…

You Mental? On December 14, 2015 a man armed with a rifle barged into an elementary school and fatally shot 20 kids and 6 adults(Fox 1). After the incident, the country was in an uproar at what happened and felt that we needed to prevent this from ever happening again. So people started throwing suggestion for ways to prevent it, some wanted to more gun law regulation while other wanted to focus on why the shooter would do this. After the investigation it was determined that the shooter was…

Nikki, a very accomplished and well-known con artist takes an amateur con artist, Jess under his wing. He teaches her some tricks to pulling off a successful con. As Nikki is getting ready to pull off a big con he and Jess become romantically involved. Following pulling off a big con in New Orleans, Nikki decides to let Jess go because he realizes that his living his life of being a liar and a cheater while trying to maintain a long-term relationship did not mix well. Fast forward three years…

TV is said to rot the brain from within when watching pointless cartoon violence. I however, agree with you Steven Johnson that television could be used as tool to help educate the brain. According to your quote, “The intelligence arrives fully formed in the words and actions of the characters on-screen (Johnson, 280).” I interpret this as hidden knowledge on shows that come through expressions and laughs. When television was first invented, it was a great new way with communicating to spread…

Social Psychology: Free will vs Autonomy. Understanding Formulation of Actions: A Cult Case Study. The formulation of truth as a psychological process is vastly homogeneous, meaning that there are universal truths and beliefs. Social absolutes exist in the form of consensus understanding of right and wrong; common decency is an expected phenomenon and value is placed upon the action in a social setting. It could be argued that humans rely on others for confirmation of their actions (Asch 1956)…

The strengths reflected by cognitive theory are those that provide knowledge about relationships, enhances perpetual skills, improves decision-making skills, and improves assessment skills (Nylund, 2015). Some criticisms of the theory suggest that cognitive theory focuses primarily on the individual and not the environment as a dynamic (Walsh, 2006, p 196). Furthermore, this theory does not focus on an individual’s emotions, such as crying, since the theory is over rationalized. This perspective…

Schizophrenia is a devastating disorder that cost over $60 billion in the United States alone. A disease as devastating as schizophrenia puts most families in a terrible situation. In the book, The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa believes that he transformed into a bug and is clearly suffering from schizophrenia evident to cognitive, behavioral, and psychological symptoms that was shown throughout the book. In the very beginning of the book the easiest symptom to identify is cognitive. One of the…

The prompt is true in the context of ethics: reason is the slave of the passions in the sense that practical reason alone cannot give rise to moral motivation. As a way of knowing, reason structures the world for us by laying a diagram of how objects and ideas are connected; however, this is merely cold information, devoid of any significance on its own. The passions, or emotions, will be the dominant driver for ethical activity because it is directly connected to our our personal preferences…