Entries by Daphne Hanson

Behavioral treatment of phobia

Thinking about exposure therapy for behavioral treatment of phobia, first, select a phobia, second, indicate whether you are doing in vivo, imaginal or virtual reality exposure and third,  create a hierarchy for exposure with at least 5 entries. How would you use the hierarchy in treatment and how would you know when treatment was working? […]

Mechanism of change in cognitive therapy

In the video we watched with Dr. Rapee, how does the client’s completion of a thought record sheet correspond to the A-B-C model? How does the A-B-C model relate to the mechanism of change in cognitive therapy – what part of the model is the focus of change and why? What does the ABC model […]

What are the cognitive advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism?

What are cognitive and other benefits of bilingualism? Bilingual people enjoy advantages: they have enriched cognitive control, it’s likely that they have improved metalinguistic awareness, as well as better memory, visual-spatial skills and even creativity. There are also social benefits from being bilingual. What are the cognitive advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism?. Bilingual individuals have been […]

Children’s language development

Language development course: psychology List the 4 elements of language, briefly explain each Finally, we end the chapter with information about disorders that can interfere with children’s language development. There are four basic aspects of language that have been studied: phonology, syn- tax, semantics, and pragmatics. Phonology is the study of the sounds of a language. What […]

The importance of nutrition

How did Hippocrates define health and illness? What treatments did he prescribe for helping his patients regain health? According to Hippocrates, the diagnosis and treatment of mental and physical diseases is based on observation, consideration of the causes, balance of theory and on the four liquids, blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile (22). What treatments did […]

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder have recurrent and persistent thoughts or images that are often dreamlike and appealing. O True O False What happens when people with OCD attempt to neutralize or suppress disturbing intrusive thoughts? Trying to suppress an intrusive, unwanted thought can cause it to rebound, or reoccur. This happens because, while an initial thought […]

Basic principles of behaviorism

What  is the behaviourist technique  a teacher can use to support Autism students Positive and negative reinforcement are basic principles of behaviorism, specifically, of operant conditioning. Positive reinforcement describes a process when a behavior is followed by a reinforcing stimulus that is pleasant for an individual (e.g., a reward, a positive emotion, or the desired […]

The important points of hormones act

Can you help me describe the important points of hormones act in a great variety of ways throughout the body within this past century, the age of the start of puberty has decreased from 15 or 16 to 11 or 12. Yet, there has not been a similar pattern of increase in a child’s psychological […]

Cognitive-behavioural approaches

View video demonstration of various cognitive-behavioral approaches and write a review of each 1. identifying approach specific techniques use. 2. What is the underlying theoretical basis 3. What is your personal reaction 4.  which population the benefit most from the approach. video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7HJmVx3qN4 video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH2tF8oB3cw video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQD12PPjFrU&list=PLn0PnqqBKfd2FmPY0kuLZSMnejIdFJiGc&t=20s video 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-WX9kQMXss&list=PLn0PnqqBKfd2FmPY0kuLZSMnejIdFJiGc&index=2 What are […]

The biological approach to psychopathology 

We are discussing mental health diagnoses and considerations. One of the factors discussed is the impact of biology, read the article below discussing biological factors related to commonly seen mental health symptoms and share your thoughts. How might lack of knowledge of familial history impact diagnosis? How does the biological approach explain mental health? The […]