Phobias and Addictions Briana Lee PSYC/300 June 14‚ 2011 Kaisa Freeman Phobias and Addictions Two emotional difficulties that learning theorists can account for are phobias and addictions. Through the use of both operant and classical conditioning‚ theorist may one day be able to understand phobias and addictions and guide sufferers to a place of better mental health. At the moment‚ theorists believe that sufferers are at the point of making irrational choices. Theorists hope is that
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Explaining Phobia Student’s Name PSYCH/504 Date Teacher’s name Explaining Phobia Phobias are very common. The Association of Psychiatry defines phobia as an excessive and persistent fear of a specific thing (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2012). Sally‚ who has a dog phobia since she was in second grade because of a negative experience has anxiety when she meets someone and is asked to go to a new place where she does not know if there is a dog present or not. To explain
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Math Phobia Math phobia‚ which is exhibited by many students‚ is the persistent‚ illogical‚ intense fear of not succeeding in math. It is the belief that one is unable to handle the difficulty associated with learning math. Many people incorrectly assume that math phobia and an inability to be successful in mathematics are inherited from one’s parents. Several legitimate factors contribute to‚ and increase the severity of‚ this perception. For instance‚ gender and ethnic backgrounds are not
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Even as a subject to the limiting forces of Victorian social mores‚ Christina Rossetti established herself as one of the pre-eminent female poets of her time. Replete with biblical allusions to Adam and Eve as well as commentary on gender roles‚ her poem "Goblin Market" is her crowning representation of the presence of social contracts in Victorian England. Rossetti juxtaposes content and form by creating a fairytale-like poem in terms of its rhyming and singsongy nature -- "Crab-apples‚ dewberries
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Rhetorical Analysis Endurance champs. This is how Lili Loofbourow describes women in her article “The female price of male pleasure” published by The Week in January‚ 2018. In the article‚ after telling the story of the unfortunate sexual encounter between Aziz Ansari and a pseudonymous woman named “Grace‚” the author tries to find an answer to a common question: Why didn’t she just get out of there as soon as she felt uncomfortable? Consequently‚ the author explains that women are trained to
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Dental Phobia Dental phobia‚ dental fear‚ and/or dental anxiety have been used interchangeably in the dental literature to describe the overwhelming discomfort that some youth and adults experience in dental situations. (1) People can fear a specific activity‚ object or situation. People with dental phobia often put off routine care for years or even decades. To avoid it‚ they will put up with periodontal disease‚ pain‚ or even broken and unsightly teeth. People often use the words "anxiety" and
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Coulrophobia “Clown Phobia” Informal Learning Experience Shalunda Lester University Of Phoenix Coulrophobia “Clown Phobia” Informal Learning Experience Coulrophobia also know as clown phobia is very common in children. The University of Sheffield conducted a study in 2008 and concluded that a lot children did not like clown decorations in physicians ’ office settings or hospitals. The researchers questioned more than 250 kids ages between four to 16 on what they thought about the idea
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Explaining Phobia Paper Stacy R. Lee University of Phoenix-Online November 26‚ 2012 In this paper the principles of operational‚ classical‚ and observational learning theories will be discussed as those theories pertain to the Case Study of Little Hans. I will review Sigmund Freud’s case study of Little Hans‚ the child that developed a fear of horses‚ and relate how this case is explained by the above mentioned theories. I will also discuss this case from the psychoanalytic perspective.
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self-report studies. These are anonymous and some believe because they all but guarantee anonymity they encourage respondents to be more truthful than if they were involved in an interview. In the past‚ sociologists tended to pay attention to only males committing crimes and ignored gender differences. This began to change in the 1970’s when feminists such as Carol Smart looked into woman and crime and began to ask questions such as: • Why do woman commit fewer crimes than men? •
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Phobias and Addiction Rachael Thomas PSY/300 January 26‚ 2014 Professor Chung Phobias and Addiction Webster Dictionary defines phobia as “a persistent‚ irrational fear of a specific object‚ activity‚ or situation that leads to compelling desire to avoid it” ("PHOBIA‚" n.d) Whereas Addiction is defined as “the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or something that is psychologically or physical habit-forming‚ as narcotics‚ to such extent its cessation causes severe trauma” ("addiciton‚"
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