THE MODEL PAPER Marie Joan Haskins CLAASDESCRITION 7-2-2014 INTSTUCTOR The model Paper "Current estimates indicate that the extent of addiction disorders‚ with the exclusion of tobacco addiction‚ involves approximately 32 million American" (James & Gilliland‚ 2005). To date there is no one single factor or explanation of Addiction. "Evidence shows that Addiction is the result of many heterogynous factors involving various combination of genetic‚environmental
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drugs‚ for instance‚ do so because of the physical effects they hope to experience. Drugs have a marked effect on the body and mind. If there were no effect‚ people would be unlikely to repeat the experience. No one sets out just to become addicted. This is the research statistics from one of my community in Kisumu Town Western Kenya that was conducted by Otieno Andrew in 2009. According to Otieno there different types of drugs abuse that the adolescents and young adults have been taking and the percentage
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Evaluate two models of one cognitive process This essay will be discussing one particular cognitive process: the memory by evaluating two models‚ which are the Multi store model introduced by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968 and the Working memory model by Baddeley and Hitch in 1974. The first model is the multi store model. It was first proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968 and is a typical example of the information-processing approach. According to this model‚ memory
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were to read it aloud. - One second after his initial fixation‚ only the first word will have been uttered. But during that second‚ a number of events will have transpired in the mind of the Reader. If we knew the train of events‚ we would know about the different reading processes. If we knew these processes‚ we would know what the child must learn to become a READER. II. PURPOSE OF THE PAPER - First‚ it tries to describe the sequence of events that transpire in one second of reading‚ in order
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One Health Behavior Theory is the Transtheoretical Model‚ which is marked by the stages pre-contemplation‚ contemplation‚ decision‚ active change‚ and maintenance. During the pre-contemplation stage‚ the focus is on what behaviors were before change is even considered. For me this stage included a mostly sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits. The contemplation stage is where I started thinking about making a change. During this time‚ I was looking at my overall health and realized physical
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Outline and evaluate the biological model of abnormality (12 marks) The biological model of abnormality is the idea that all behaviour is rooted in underlying physical processes. The biological model of abnormality assumes that there is a physiological reason for psychological disorders. The disorders are considered an illness and supposedly make a person with these ’disorders’ abnormal. The model indicates that mental illnesses resemble physical illnesses and are thought to be treated in a similar
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A Cognitive Approach in treating Borderline Personality Disorder PSYCHOLOGY 443/2 Research paper Psychological Intervention Models Dr. Joe Beltempo‚ Ph.D Mariana Kaplun November 6th‚ 2013 Concordia University Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most complicated disorders that a therapist has to face in his career. Much research has been done regarding treatments‚ but not many have been promising. In some instances‚ results were even deteriorative to
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bio/psycho/social model stipulates that “mental disorder can be attributed to many biological‚ psychological and social variables that work in tandem to produce healthy or unhealthy behavior” (Kearney & Trull‚ 2015‚ p. 47). The problem with this model is that it does not take into account that each human person has a free will gifted to them from God. Free will allows human beings to be the authors of their own actions instead of believing that external conditions control them. A Christian model of behavior
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individual to commit a crime (Criminal‚ 2017.) “Three broad models of criminal behaviors are the following: psychological‚ sociological and biological models. Actually‚ it is difficult to completely separate them and it is generally accepted‚ that all of them play a role in the interpretation of behavior” (Criminal‚ 2017.) I believe that the psychological aspect is what goes into an individual deciding to commit a crime or not. The individual is the one to decide and make the decision. Of course‚ the factors
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Mental health within childhood is a long standing problem within society. One in ten children suffer with mental health issues (Mentalhealth.org.uk‚ 2015)‚ by adopting different perspectives‚ models and explanations for childhood mental health‚ an evaluation can be made on the best course of prevention. The different views we adopt however have an effect on the way we think about the issue‚ such as the way we assess and identify it‚ how we treat it and most importantly how we try to prevent it (Kearney
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