week 7 dq response 2 Lauren Doran

Shall we involve the police, my point exactly. The A and B persons could be anywhere from 5-18 years old. There is less than zero way to tell in the way the question is worded. Just one of enumerable reasons I am not a fan of behaviorism. It gives the battlefield medic the illusion that they have the skills of a FAC member board certified general surgeon. 18 months of training get a license and you have the power to do lasting violently nasty damage to your clients, because you think you know more than you do. And the field of Psychology backs you up.

This week’s assignment is to give a treatment for a situation you are given about 1% information for. When in truth; the question should be “define these terms”.

I have a Bachelors in Psychology and 35 masters level credit hours in the same. If I cannot define those terms what am I doing here.

Classical conditioning terms include:

UCS (unconditioned stimulus), Pavlov noticed that when creatures eat they naturally begin to salivate. He wanted to find out if he put a sound before hand if he could get the creature to repeat the behavior minus the food. It worked. There are a lots of things which creatures react to naturally, or unstimulated.

UCR (unconditioned response), the natural smell of food starts the biological reactions to said stimulus. Hunger, salivation, etc. come naturally.

NS (neutral stimulus), a response in a given creature which does not produce a single “dependable” biological response, but it does get the creatures attention.

CS (conditioned stimulus), an event occurs like the need to eat, ring a bell before the creature eats. The sound will cause the creature to have hunger and eating responses.

CR (conditioned response). the good old Pavlov response. Ring a bell and the dog/s will salivate. Most notably seen in recent years with “hear your cell phone ring and the person is automatically by nervous system CR forced to salivate/pick up their phone”.

Operant conditioning terms include positive reinforcers, and negative reinforcers, and punishers. OC; the best example is the Skinner Box, do what is demanded or face a larger amount of punishment than if you do what is demanded. You are going to be hurt either way, but the amount of “pain” is increased if the demanded task is not done correctly. Positive reinforcers are living, eating, escaping, or other things the creature wants. Negative reinforcers are the pain which must be experienced in order to force the creature to comply. Punishers are the if the negative reinforcers do not work to the satisfaction of the tester.

I am so not a fan of these tools used without a full and complete understanding of them. However jumping to treatment seems to be the current wave and acceptable response in the field. I on the other hand want to create a think tank, and perform research.