Dr. Ayars Psyc 1101 The girl in the closet The purpose of this paper is to identify five conditioned stimuli that elicit responses for Lauren that would not elicit a response for you or me. Lauren was abused at a great extent that has her conditioned to a lot of unnatural stimulus that normally is just a part of our everyday lives. The first conditioned stimulus I would like to identify is the response of fear and pain to abuse and the abuse is derived from sexual contact
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“Habits can be incredibly useful. They allow the mind to multitask and in so doing enable efficiency. Behaviors get linked together into a routine‚ and once the chain of action is initiated‚ the rest follows with little mental effort. Yet sometimes habits take hold when they are not useful” (Glasofer and Steinglass). In the article‚ “Disrupting the habits of Anorexia‚” Glasofer and Steinglass outline the idea that routines and habits result in certain destructive behaviors and disorders. The article
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Summary and Personal Response: “On Becoming a Writer” Naomi Cranfield Prof. Denise Ogden ENG 115 28 October 2012 Summary and Personal Response: On Becoming a Writer Mr. Russell Baker is a professional writer whose writings have earned him the Pulitzer Prize on more than one occasion. The excerpt “On Becoming a Writer” came from his memoir “Growing Up” (Baker‚ 1982). In this section of his memoirs‚ Mr. Baker is explaining that pivotal moment in his life when he realized he wanted to become
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Summary Response Paper In this article she is talking about online dating. She believes that there is nothing wrong with it and sees it as just another method to meeting new people. She states that people have been going on blind dates for as long as the mind can remember so what is wrong with setting up your own blind date? She says that the stigma against online dating with the people in the twenty something age group is interesting. This is interesting because it is that age group that came
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Summary & Response: How It Feels To Be Colored Me Living in a world where it is foreign to be colored was hard for many people of this nature in the 1920s. For Zora Neale Hurston‚ this was not a challenge at all. This high-spirited girl gives an explanation of how it felt to be‚ “...like a brown paper bag of miscellany propped against a wall” (Hurston 197). Written by Hurston herself‚ “How It Feels To Be Colored” gives us a humorous‚ sarcastic-ridden view of what her childhood was like from her
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Rosales 1 Cecilia Rosales Professor Allen Final Summary-Response Essay 16 October 2011 Argument Culture: Confrontation Online In “The Argument Culture” by Deborah Tannen‚ she describes our adversarial society in debates and dialogues. Tannen discusses our culture’s style of seeing issues‚ questions‚ and conflicts as having two sides that battle each other for one goal. She states that using war metaphors: war on drugs or fight against AIDS‚ makes every conflict a battle in the minds
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In this article Diana George discusses how poverty is misrepresented by Habitats for Humanity and how this adversely affects the organization’s goal‚ which is to “eliminate poverty housing from the globe” (pg.4). In an effort to attract supporters the organization paints a very obvious picture of what poverty is in their publicity videos. They show people in rags‚ living in shacks with despair all around them‚ and suggests that the issue can simply be solved with good-willing volunteers. The problem
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Personal Response to Bonilla-Silva Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is a professor of Sociology at Duke University with the associations of race. In America race is known as an enormous issue for many years. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva discusses the new racism in his book‚ The Linguistics of Color Blind Racism: How to Talk Nasty about Blacks without Sounding “Racist”. Color blind to racism is held to have led to the segregation of the white race from other minorities called white habitus. Color blind racism and white
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Personal response. Nurzaida Syaza Zawawi IB 95 I would strongly disagree with the statement “uniforms interfere with students’ freedom of self expression” as I am positive that uniform would somehow trigger students to excel academically. Students are teenagers who tend to be fashion-victims and their desire to be up-to-date with the flow of fashion would never fade away. Hence‚ they may be less likely to take school seriously as most of them are keen to look good rather than to have fantastic
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Facing The Music Her eyes glistened with a repulsive gleam of a smile on her face. I walked slowly hearing the whispering of my socks against the floor. It was that time again‚ piano lesson. Mrs. Zhang looked at me and smirked eerily. I sighed and took my place on the on the bench‚ close enough to smell my teacher. I put my shaking hands on the keys and began. I had always loved music. My parents once told me I sang before I spoke‚ I played piano before I could ride a bike. I listened to everything
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