Ivan Pavlov

This Case study will discuss Louise (The Client). Emotional difficulty seems to have begun for Louise since adopting a new child (Peter) due to the death of her husband’s (Robert) sister, Furthermore a gambling addiction has emerged. The question arises of how each psychological modality, theory or model could help Louise. To begin with Firth, (2015) describes the Psychoanalytical approach (Freud) as focusing on the unconscious mind where events in childhood shape the potential developed adult.…

Media Violence, to some they are just simple words, but to me they scream out the destruction of young minds. As the years go by media violence is seen as less of a problem, but that only proves how much of a hold it has on society. The media’s portrayal of violence has resulted in many individuals becoming addicted to violent creations causing them to believe violence is a key factor in our society. Humanity is gradually accepting violence, due to mass Media’s numbing viewers, who are harmfully…

Models of Abnormality Stacy Adams Ivy Tech Models of Abnormality There are several current models of abnormality. They are the Biological Model, Psychodynamic Model, Behavioral Model, Cognitive Model, Humanistic-Existential Model, and the Sociocultural Model (Comer, 2014). Many therapists use portions of several models, while some strictly use one specific model. The Biological Model looks at the biological processes in order to explain abnormal behavior. They account for abnormal…

to explain violent behaviour; these include the behavioural theory and the personality theory. Behaviourism is the observable actions of people; and is explained in terms of operant conditioning and reinforcing agents by scientist, B.F Skinner. Ivan Pavlov further explained another form of behaviourism in terms of classical conditioning. Psychoanalysis is a method known as the “talking cure” effective in treating mental and emotional problems by allowing a patient to talk about their lives e.g.…

Imagine you are a student at Stanford University in the 1970s, and you hear that a psychologist is offering $15 per day to take part in his experiment. You figure that you could use the extra cash and figure that it’s a good way to help out. You and 20 other students are accepted to participate, and you are split into two groups, prisoners and guards. The only instructions given were “...do whatever they thought was necessary to maintain law and order in the prison and to command the respect of…

After hearing the sound of fireworks, the barking of a dog, or even just the sight of a weapon, something in a persons mind with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will trigger. Horror will constantly torment the mind, no matter what or where the person is. This is part of what people diagnosed with PTSD go through on a daily basis. Unfortunately, little is known about why the human body induces this mental disorder, or why it takes so long to recover from. However, based off recent research,…

The approach believes that all behaviour is learnt by classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Classical conditioning was proposed by Ivan Pavlov when he noticed that his dogs would start to salivate when they heard the sound of the owner’s footsteps. He noticed that the dogs had associated footsteps with food. Pavlov classically conditioned the dogs to salivate when hearing a bell before giving them food. (Gross, R. Rolls, G. 2008) Operant conditioning was proposed by B.F…

Behaviorists believe that behaviour is the only thing that can be treated. Feelings or internal states cannot be treated. (Gordon, A.M., & Browne, K.W, 2011:112-115) Theorists like Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, Edward L. Thorndike, B.F. Skinner and Albert Bandura contributed to Behaviorist theories. In these theories, it is stated that there are three types of learning : classical conditioning (association learning), operant conditioning…

questions we had to turn in for a grade. Dealing with the history behind psychology, we had to make a chart that listed the different perspectives in psychology, a brief description, a real world example and the theorist behind all of it, like Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, John Watson.…

Early Perspectives of Psychology Question 1: Compare and contrast two early perspectives of psychology. Be sure to include comparisons of founders, methods, and philosophers. Have you ever wondered why people do the things they do, or why people behave the in certain ways? Have you ever thought about how people process information to reach specific results? For hundreds of years, medical doctors, physiologists, and philosophers have always speculated and contemplated the psychological aspects…