Essays on Behavior

When Phoenix star, Charles Barkley, said, ‘I’m not a role model. I am paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Just because I can dunk doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.’ in the 1993 commercial for Nike it challenged people to think about of whether athletes should be role models or should we...

‘It is totally unnatural, it’s not morally right!’ I can imagine that this is the kind of argument and statement that one will hear on many an occasion when discussing controversial topics, such as same-sex marriage or whether it is right or not for women to have an abortion. The question one must ask oneself...

This paper investigates the different types of conditioning methods that can be used on Siamese Fighting Fish, also known as the Betta Fish. Classical and Operant conditioning were used during this experiment to simulate different behavioral responses in the fish. A red Veiltail male was purchased in January of 2019 and is adapted to its...

Abraham Harold Maslow Early Life, Education, And Formative Experiences Born on April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York, Abraham Maslow was the eldest of seven kids. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Kiev in the first generation, then part of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), who fled from Czarist persecution within the early twentieth century. They decided to live in New York City and in a multi-ethnic working-class neighbour. His dad and mom were poor and no longer intellectually focused, but they valued education. Maslow attended the City College of...

What exactly is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? Abraham Maslow was a psychologist who originally developed Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. To this day entrepreneurs believe in self-motivation to reach an individual’s end goals and success of their careers. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is grouped by five categories which are; physiological being at the bottom, then safety,...

Operant conditioning is a form of learning in which responses come to be controlled by their consequences as mentioned by (Weiten Briefer 9e). It goes on to say that these patterns of behaviour are elicited by environmental stimuli. This form of behaviour can be controlled by decreasing an old habit by adopting a new habit...

Sitting still and doing nothing is as crude a description of Mindfulness practice as the description can get. Why? I’d like to quote a few words from wise old Dumbledore, “Of course it’s all happening in your head Harry. But why in the world does that mean that it’s not real?” The therapeutic benefits of...

Curriculum evaluation is the process of collecting data in order to make decisions about the curriculum in question. According to White (2015) evaluation is a phase in the process of constructing and reconstructing the curricula. Its purpose is to see whether the curriculum objectives have been achieved so that modifications in them can be made...

Behaviorism can best be described as a theory of behaviors that can be observed and are learned through the environment. Behaviorism started in 1913 because of John Watson wrote an article entitled “Psychology as the Behaviorist views it”. We learn our behaviors through operant or classical conditioning. There are three types of Behaviorism which are...

In the modern world where everyone claims to be independent, the kind of people who sought help and comes forward admitting that they need help is scarce. This is when we the health professionals’ step in to improve the wellbeing of those people life who refuse to initiate or accept help. Mindfulness being one means...