Essays on Behavior

Speed driving is one of the common behaviors among young drivers. A report by Constantinou et al.  (2011) reveals that speeding is common among young adults in the society. Although most of them engage in speed driving out of naivety, there is the need for the society to look at...

Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory states that individuals’ behaviors are influenced by their surroundings. The hypothesis suggests that people learn through observation, modeling, and imitation. People learn new behaviors from the people they interact with and situations they find themselves in. They use this information as a guide for their...

People with aggressive behaviors can not only cause physical harm, but they can as well cause emotional harm to those around them. Such behaviors may range from physical abuse to verbal abuse and may also involve harming other people's personal properties (Steffgen, 2007). Some of the main factors that make...

The Relationship Between Internal Action Models (IAMs) and Autism Spectrum Disorder The templates responsible for the sensory-motor coordination in the brain rests on the aspect of Internal Action Models (IAMs). A theme that seems prevalent amongst academic circles suggests that the theory behind IAMs has connections to autism spectrum disorder. The...

Individuals with Personality Disorders Individuals with personality disorders (PDs) exhibit feelings, thoughts and behaviours that contradict with established societal norms and cultural expectations (Edition, 2013; Aggarwal, 2013). The UK National Offender Management Service (NOMS) outlines three conditions for PD to be present. First PDs are problematic – they cause people to...

Inappropriate use of drugs is a problem leading to myriads of challenges to the life of people across the world. In addition to harming the users, the drugs affect the life of family members. Moreover, the life of the society has a high potential of being affected by the mayhem...

How Melissa’s Case Study applies to the Topics Brain and Behavior, Sensation and Perception, Learning and Memory Melissa is a seven-year-old girl suffering from a seizure that impacts her motor skills and social behavior. She also has irregular sleep patterns whereby she would regularly experience insomnia and fatigue as well as...

Melissa Hershey is a seven years old girl who has serious concerns interacting with other people in her life. Her past is quite complicated as she was affected by seizure that caused difficulties in her walking. Additionally, the father has not been present for a significant part of her life.Brain...

Stockholm syndrome is a form of psychological illness which causes an hostage to develop feelings towards his/her captors. The term traces its history back in 1973 when Jan-Erik Olsson took four bank operators as his captives during a failed bank robbery (Adorjan et al., 2012). Upon the release of the...

The American Psychiatric Association abbreviated as APA is a professional and scientific organization that represents trainee psychiatrists and psychiatrists in the United States of America. Thereafter conducting a critical research and analysis, the American Psychiatric Association defines psychological disorder as a condition that results to significant disturbances in feelings, thoughts...

Does Deciding Among Morally Relevant Options Feel Like Making a Choice? How Morality Constrains People’s Sense of Choice In any given society there exist ascribed rules and regulations that determine how people conduct themselves. The ascribed rules and regulations are not strictly enforced. However, people are born into them and simply...

Coaching and Procrastination Coaching aims at reducing the effects of psychological blocks that hinder the achievement of desired goals or unleashing one’s potential. Procrastination is one of these blocks that cognitive behaviorists have been seeking methods to address because the brain will undoubtedly prefer putting tasks to be completed on a...