Identify these three approaches and tell what, according to each, causes behavior. Considering the three approaches to psychology, choose two positions, and compare them. How would each advise parents in child-rearing practices. For a day or two observe the circumstances which immediately precede your own eating. Some students completely forget all that they ve learned when they walk into a testing situation.
Businesses often make use of conditioning techniques in their commercials.
They associate the name of their product with pleasant tunes or exciting scenes, so that the name alone will elicit conditioned relaxation or excitement. Think of specific ads that use these techniques. Discuss how smoking can be considered neurotic behavior. Endocrine researchers find that puberty is often delayed in young women who are active dancers. Describe how you are being conditioned in your school activities in terms of the type of conditioning you have read about.