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The 'Science' of Human Behavior According to B.F. Skinner

or punish it. If a given behavior results in an effect that the organism likes, this behavior will be repeated. If the effect is ...

Perfect Competition, Short and Long Run Behavior

In three pages corporated perfect competition is examined in terms of short run and long run behavior and considers the availabili...

Commercial Setting and Perfect Competition

In seven pages perfect competition is defined and then applied in a discussion of perfect environment long term and short term pro...

Social Psychology and Advertising

own car repairs and men cook dinner for the kids. Traditional roles have all but disappeared in an era where people have to fend ...

ADHD and Behavior Therapy

In five pages treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder through behavior therapy and its benefits are discussed in ter...

Learning Theories of Burrhus Frederic Skinner

enlisted in his academic school of operant conditioners were losing the competition for good university jobs to cognitive scientis...

Fitzgerald's Short Story, The Rich Boy

This paper analyzes Fitzgerald's short story, The Rich Boy in terms of the protagonist's behavior and refusal to grow up. This si...

Personal Construct Theory of George Kelly

In eight pages George Kelly is discussed in terms of his background and the behavior and personality development determinants offe...

Theories of Criminology

it in the conventional fashion; because the desire for material goals has been imbedded into the individuals entire psychological ...

Nail-biting: CBT as a therapeutic option

The problem of fingernail and cuticle biting in response to anxiety-provoking situations or stimuli has been noted in the current ...

Young Children and Behavioral Modification Practices

to elicit from their child(Davis 1998). In a classroom or home situation pointing out the appropriate behavior in the actions of a...

Students with ADHD and Applied Behavior Analysis

and Lynch, 2002/2003). The consequence, i.e., what happens is the payoff (Warner and Lynch, 2002/2003). Duhaney discusses this ap...

Behavior While Dining

A student can glean tidbits of information about quality of food as can restauranteurs. The article also talks about the Subway ch...

Children Who Start Fires

emotion, Wishert said. Some of these kids have trouble grasping the severity of their actions" (City of Mount Vernon, 2004). Ano...

1954 U.S. Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education

The Facts of the Case Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on the events surrounding the attempts by several A...

Autistic Child Learning, Discrete Trial Training and Applied Behavior Analysis

hydrocephalus impairs ones thinking processes - headache, vomiting, lethargy, change in head size, modifications in thinking, such...

Examination of Personality and Psychological Disorders and Cognitive Behavior Therapy

make good decisions (Bush, 2002). In CBT, the therapist plays an active role in helping the individual to solve his or her probl...

The Children of Alcoholics and the Impact of Alcoholism

ever been exposed to. As he grows to realize it is his family displaying the dysfunctional behavior and not that of his friends, ...

Is Financial Instability Inevitable?

basis, there are periods of stability, but there is a history of bubbles, in a stable financial environment this would not occur B...

Addiction Behaviors and Two Psychological Theories

up with them. They will become compulsive and obsessive about getting their drug or drink. Classical conditioning theory would e...

Philosophy of Nursing and Future Plans

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

Child Development - Observations

book. The reader kept the story interesting for the children. According to Piagets Stages of Cognitive Development, Diane demons...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Adolescents and Crime

possibilities; and other issues. They also dont seem to understand that older people were once young, and therefore understand th...

BP Amoco and Corporate Governance

world, embracing all the values are valued by all of the stakeholders. The rhetoric also appears to be pout into practice and as s...

A Reinforcement Explanation

quite well known. For instance, the first principle is to reinforce the target behavior and only when the behavior is exhibited. T...

Social Psychology and Cults

individual zealously devotes himself to some leader or ideal" reveals the inherent social bigotry that has long obscured cults and...

Disruptive Student Behaviors and Praise by Teachers

and administrators have been unable to secure the promise of a violence-free school. At the same time, communities have also reco...

Morals and Cicero

culture, have a duty to the entity we belong to. We have a duty to engage in moral discussions of philosophy so that we can live a...

U.S. President and Democratic Theory

The second view is the "substantive" one, which "evaluates democracy on the basis of substance of government policies" (Janda, 200...