Essays on Behaviorism

                             Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) is one of the most influential coaching tactics that is built upon the substantial based psychological standards. The techniques, strategies, activities, and exercises applied are useful in assisting individuals to recognize and challenge their feelings and actions that are self-defeating. Negative thoughts result in negative...

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...

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...

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...

People in the workplace often avoid stimuli that are anxiety-provoking. To explain this form of behavior, behaviorist and humanists concepts can be used. Escaping from the stimuli makes one remove the unpleasant emotions (Omrod, 2016). The avoidance, therefore, becomes a reward that increases or reinforces the behavior avoidance. Some employees...

In the society teachers, guardians and parents spend much time with children teaching them life skills and behaviors considered as appropriate. Consequently, it is vital for them to be aware of theories of human development applicable to behavior modification and management. This paper explores instrumental, classical and tow factor theories...

The primary aim of this essay is to identify two forms of social influence as well as explaining and evaluating the research methods used by psychologists to study them. Human beings are typically social beings who are continually seeking acceptance, cooperation, and cohesion from the groups they associate themselves with....

Everyone has been exposed to learning in one way or another, hence important to understand the basics of each type of learning based on the classical and operant conditioned as postulated by Ian Pavlov and B.F. Skinner. Classical conditioning was first described by Pavlov and entails an originally neutral stimulus...

Arguments for caution in using personality measurement Arguments for caution in using personality measurement to make inferences have been presented by Mischell (1977) in an evidence-based framework. In fact, Mischell (1977) is one of the ardent critiques of the social-cognitive hypothesis through the detailed discussion of personality traits. Mischell (1977) asserts...

The working of any organization or community requires the guidance of several rule and norms, which all people subscribe to without favor or prejudice. Every culture has an implicit and explicit characteristic that defines how people behave within the same environment. Explicit attributes of culture refer to the observable and...

Self-recognition in primates has been an interesting area of research following the shared similarity. While many primates demonstrate high intelligence, self recognition is poorly demonstrated by species constituting the primates. Most researchers agree that there is great similarity between chimpanzees and apes, a factor that is probably contributing to their...