Good Behavior

The notion of intelligence has attracted scholars and educators. The traditional conception of intelligence rests largely upon a monolithic, static view of intelligence. Spearman (1904) made the first theoretical attempt to describe intelligence proposing his g model (g for general) .This theoretical model was the outcome of the measurement of psychological abilities. He believed in the existence of a “common underlying ability or force serving as the basis for all our mental/intellectual…

by the famous quote “act for the greatest good of the greatest number.” This means that good actions are measured by the happiness or pleasure that is produced and bad actions are measured by the unhappiness and pain produced. In other words, for each and every moral decision making situation that one finds them self in, one applies the utilitarian theory of morality, in order to determine which option or alternative course of action will produce more good consequences over bad consequences,…

It is important to recognize that behavior (both positive and negative) is maintained by various reinforcement contingencies. Therefore, punishment will be more effective when a certain behavior is not reinforced at the same time that punishment contingencies are involved. For example, when a teacher tries to use punishment in the classroom, it is common for the student’s peers to reinforce the child’s inappropriate behavior through laughing or clapping or yelling. Punishment would…

People often wonder why others engage or do not engage in a certain behavior. Per health psychologists, there are three theories that could provide an explanation as to why people engage in positive or negative health behaviors: health belief model, theory of planned behavior, and the transtheoretical model. Of the three models of behavior change, the transtheoretical model (TTM) is certainly the best model to use since it is considered a journey and people can move between each stage at his/her…

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS USING PICTURES AND/OR HAND GESTURES TO GET ATTENTION Rationale It is hypothesized that Tyrone is using his undesired behaviour of throwing furniture’s or objects to the floor to again preferred staff attention. How to use pictures and/or hand gestures to get attention as a functional skill to teach because it will allow Tyrone to get what he wants without showing undesired behaviour. Learning to use pictures or hand gestures will be an efficient communication strategy for…

Experience has a structure. A person’s thoughts and memories have a pattern, or structure, to them. If the structure is changed, one’s own experience will automatically change. NLP approach is that anything one can do is learnable. Hence, performance can be modelled and transferred. NLP can be applied in a vast amount of areas such as personal development, sales, coaching, leadership, health, and sports, just to name a few. In this report, we will examine two concepts of NLP, Presuppositions…

A laboratory is equipped for the use of all students for experiments. It is a hazard prune work space, where safety measures are strictly enforced. Experiments could be potentially harmful, and sometimes require specialised setup for executions. It behoves on the laboratory management to provide the needed safety awareness to the students and also follow through in the enforcement of the standards. Research ethics codes require that a research work space should be safe for all users; researcher…

The Split-Brain study was conducted by Michael Gazzaniga and Roger Sperry. The motivation for the research to do the study in the first place when Sperry and Ronald Myers made a discovery that when the two hemispheres were incised, they saw that “each hemisphere functioned independently as if it were a complete brain” (Gazzaniga). Before the study was done, what the researchers had known about the topic came from Sperry and Myers discovery, research from animal studies, and humans who had…

Use of Erikson’s and Piaget’s theories to discuss correlations between low APGAR scores and cognitive development. Low Apgar scores and its effect on the cognition of an adolescent or adult has been widely tested and researched. This essay attempts to link these low Apgar scores with Erikson and Piaget’s theories to further discuss the cognitive development of an infant in the future. An explanation of the Apgar score The Apgar score is a scale created by Virginia Apgar that is used at 1 and 5…

difficult to know or find out the real attitude of a person unless the person themselves reveals it . Attitude is a psychological feature that arouses an organism to act towards a desired goal and elicits, controls, and sustains certain goal-directed behaviors . Attitude is the purpose or psychological cause of an action. It has been shown to have roots in physiological, behavioral, cognitive, and social areas. Attitude may be rooted in a basic impulse to optimize physical needs such as…