Behavioural Therapy
ASSIGNMENT 1 BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY.
1/ STATE HOW MANY OF THE PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT SOCIETY MIGHT BE AVOIDED? (3).
1/ From a practical standpoint, Knowing how early experiences mould an individual make us wiser in the way we raise our children, many problems that confront society-aggression, alienation, suicide, and mental illness-could perhaps be averted if we better understood how parental behaviour and attitudes affect children, how some of these problems originate, and how they might be dealt with at an early age.
2/ HOW IS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT DETERMINED? (2).
2/ Human developments are determined by a continuous interaction between heredity and environmental. At the moment of conception a remarkable number of personal characteristics are already determined by the genetic structure of the fertilised ovum.
Our genes programme our growing cells so that we develop into a person, rather than a fish, a bird, or a monkey. They decide our skin and hair colour, general body size, sex, and – to some extent – our intelligence and emotional temperament.
3/ EXPLAIN: A/ WITH WHAT DO BIOLOGICAL PREDISPOSITIONS INTERACT? B/ WHAT DO THEY DETERMINE? (4).
3/ Our experiences depend on the specific culture, social group, and family in which we are raised. Children from very deprived, families tend, on average, to be more aggressive than children from middle-class or upper-class backgrounds, but a child’s tendency to fight or show other forms of aggression also depends on the particular family in which he or she is raised-the kind of behaviour modelled by the parents and the way they reward or punish aggressive acts. A child is exposed to many different conditions-some are shared with other children in the culture, some are common to the child’s social group, and some are unique to his or her family.
The question about whether heredity (Nature) or environment (Nurture) is more important in determining the course of human
1/ STATE HOW MANY OF THE PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT SOCIETY MIGHT BE AVOIDED? (3).
1/ From a practical standpoint, Knowing how early experiences mould an individual make us wiser in the way we raise our children, many problems that confront society-aggression, alienation, suicide, and mental illness-could perhaps be averted if we better understood how parental behaviour and attitudes affect children, how some of these problems originate, and how they might be dealt with at an early age.
2/ HOW IS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT DETERMINED? (2).
2/ Human developments are determined by a continuous interaction between heredity and environmental. At the moment of conception a remarkable number of personal characteristics are already determined by the genetic structure of the fertilised ovum.
Our genes programme our growing cells so that we develop into a person, rather than a fish, a bird, or a monkey. They decide our skin and hair colour, general body size, sex, and – to some extent – our intelligence and emotional temperament.
3/ EXPLAIN: A/ WITH WHAT DO BIOLOGICAL PREDISPOSITIONS INTERACT? B/ WHAT DO THEY DETERMINE? (4).
3/ Our experiences depend on the specific culture, social group, and family in which we are raised. Children from very deprived, families tend, on average, to be more aggressive than children from middle-class or upper-class backgrounds, but a child’s tendency to fight or show other forms of aggression also depends on the particular family in which he or she is raised-the kind of behaviour modelled by the parents and the way they reward or punish aggressive acts. A child is exposed to many different conditions-some are shared with other children in the culture, some are common to the child’s social group, and some are unique to his or her family.
The question about whether heredity (Nature) or environment (Nurture) is more important in determining the course of human