Outline and evaluate the behavioural approach to abnormality. (12 marks) The behavioural approach suggests that all behaviour is learnt. This includes abnormal behaviours. Behaviours can be learned through classical conditioning‚ operant conditioning or modelling. Ivan Pavlov discovered classical conditioning‚ where learning results from the association of stimuli with reflex responses. Classical conditioning can be used to explain the development of many abnormal behaviours‚ including phobias
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Offering inappropriate treatment or care Offering inappropriate treatment or care is unacceptable within a care setting because every resident deserves to be treated equally and professionally. As a care worker it is your duty to ensure that they are receiving the best care possible no matter why they are in the situation they are in. A resident’s past should not affect the way you treat or think of them‚ we are there to support and promote independence for all residents. If a resident is showing
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The Behavioural approach Classical conditioning- Pavlov’s dogs- Procedures and findings-Criticisms Classical conditioning is a technique used in behavioral training. A naturally occurring stimulus is paired with a response. Then‚ a previously neutral stimulus is paired with the naturally occurring stimulus. Eventually‚ the previously neutral stimulus comes to evoke the response without the presence of the naturally occurring stimulus. The two elements are then known as the conditioned stimulus and
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Through observation and staff interview it appears Brendan seeks a reaction of others including positive interaction from peers. Brendan appears to react impulsively to attention seeking behavior. This may have impacted responses to the possible sensory based functions. Escape may have scored higher by two raters as when they have seen this behavior Brendan is not following the task at hand. It is hypothesized that physical behaviors again serve an attention seeking function
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TRIGGERS FOR RURBANIZATION : Following are the initiatives which can trigger Rurbanization • Government interventions like provision of urban services in rural areas such as good roads‚ transportations‚ drinking water‚ sanitation‚ electricity‚ telecommunication‚ educational facilities and hospitals etc. This will ensure good living conditions and will result in reduced migration to larger towns/ cities. • Connecting roads which link many villages to many urban agglomerations‚ thereby providing
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Lab 4 Capturing a Reference Image Exercise 4.2 | Creating an Answer File | Overview | In Exercise 4.2‚ you use the Windows System Image Manager to create an answer file that partitions a computer’s disk during the Windows 7 installation procedure. | Completion time | 15 minutes | Question 1 | What will the properties you have just configured do when you include them in an answer file that you use to install Windows 7? With the properties that I just configured when included in the
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Authored by: Authored on: Feb 1‚ 2013 3:39 PM Subject: Behavioural Sciences and ViCLAS As a psychology major‚ I took this weeks discussion and looked at it in a more personal view from my opinions and beliefs on behavioral science rather then what the RCMP defines behavioral science as. The RCMP states the meaning as the study of deviant behavior; I think this to be very one sided‚ we all have tendencies and act in ways that we believe is to be right. So when we discussed what we
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Trigger Finger What is it? Stenosing tenosynovitis‚ commonly known as “trigger finger” or “trigger thumb”‚ involves the pulleys and tendons in the hand that bend the fingers. The tendons work like long ropes connecting the muscles of the forearm with the bones of the fingers and thumb. In the finger‚ the pulleys are a series of rings that form a tunnel through which the tendons must glide‚ much like the guides on a fishing rod through which the line (or tendon) must pass. These pulleys hold the
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Behavioural Finance Martin Sewell University of Cambridge February 2007 (revised April 2010) Abstract An introduction to behavioural finance‚ including a review of the major works and a summary of important heuristics. 1 Introduction Behavioural finance is the study of the influence of psychology on the behaviour of financial practitioners and the subsequent effect on markets. Behavioural finance is of interest because it helps explain why and how markets might be inefficient. For more information
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“The contribution of behavioural finance theory is said to be of critical importance in understanding investor behaviour in modern finance” INTRODUCTION According to Gregory Curtis (2004‚ pg 16)‚ Sometime we behave like perfect economic beings. But other times we behave like‚ well‚ human beings. We make decisions on the basis of biases that don’t reflect real world facts. We allow our responses to decisions to depend on how the questions are framed. We engage in complex mental accounting‚ ignoring
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