Lauren Slater

out of hand. Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit, mentions the importance of knowing that gambling could become a habit and how it could transform to addiction. To be able to change it you need to know the cue, routine and reward as well as Lauren Slater the author of the book Opening Skinner’s Box supports the idea of habits by making examples of how the cue, routine and reward functions. Angie Bachmann is a mother of three girls and a house wife who got bored of the daily routine. One day…

On March 13, 1964, a crime occurred that showed the effects of others on the whole. As Lauren Slater describes the event in her book, Opening Skinner’s Box, just before sunrise in Queens, New York, a woman named Catherine Genovese was coming home from work when she was stabbed by a hooded man. She screamed, yet no one came. Despite witnesses in…

the issues inside of herself making her feel more hopeless about the situation she is in. The unreliability of the diagnosis criteria was accentuated in a study undertaken by researchers in 1975 and again more recently by American psychologist Lauren Slater. These studies indicate that no causes can be found through a mental health problem diagnosis, as there is very little validity within the diagnoses. Outlined in chapter four of "A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental…