Social behavior

Eight month old, Leo, displays some minor dysmorphic features and developmental delays. Due to Leo’s developmental troubles, Dr. Lewes was consulted. After Dr. Lewes received a comprehensive three generation family history, he performs a thorough examination on Leo. The results determined that there was no species genetic syndrome. Given this, Dr. Lewes orders a micro-array comparative genomic hybridization study, which demonstrates no substantial deletion or duplication. At ten months of age,…

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…

relationships whereas a mentally compromised child would not . The formal operational stage (which is from the age of 11 until adulthood ) consists of individuals being able to solve abstract problems logically , developing concerns about identity and other social issues as well as becoming more scientifically orientated in thinking. Children with cognitive problems would struggle in all facets of development .(Weiten,…

Class management is very important if people who are in charge to manage the classroom correctly. Student can improve their performance if has a good classroom management. In this literature review we as a group have to study about this topic which is the impact of student performance on classroom management. We have to search the old journal and article that related to our topic. In this chapter we have to explain our…

additional classes and practicum experience before graduating from college? What about teachers who have been teaching for more than 15 years and do not plan to go back to school, what can be done to support both the teachers and students? What role can occupational therapy practitioners serve in meeting the needs in providing training to the general education teachers? Many of the students with disabilities in the general education classroom also receive related services. It is important to…