Psychology Answers

IDENTIFY THE CORE ASSUMPTIONS OF BEHAVIORAL AND

SOCIAL LEARNING THEORIES OF PERSONALITY.

Neurons receive information from other neurons through their

Analyze a health-related behavior that is considered unhealthy (smoking, unhealthy eating, drinking too much, not getting enough sleep, not exercising, avoiding health screenings, etc.). Based on your readings, describe and analyze how health beliefs are related to this behavior using at least one of the models in the textbook. Examples: Stages of Change Model, Health Belief Model (HBM) or Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Analyze and discuss the psychosocial (emotional, social, financial) influences on health-related behavior that you observe.  

Give examples of;

•A negative feedback control mechanism

•A positive feedback control mechanism

Share your thoughts about the importance of being able to explain and predict health-related behaviors. To what extent do models of belief and behavior help to explain actual behavior? Utilize the readings to support your ideas. 

End your discussion post with one well thought out question related to health psychology from which your colleagues can formulate a response or generate further discussion.

You are interested in studying how the color of a room might affect

student performance on exams. Describe the experiment you would design to investigate this. Be sure to define and identify each of the following: independent variable, dependent variable, the control group, and the experimental group. Additionally, define the term confounding variable and explain how you might solve with the problem of at least two confounding variables in your study. 

Which criterion of abnormality would regard both extreme happiness and extreme sadness as evidence of psychopathology

A psychological defence mechanism in which individuals turn painful or threatening reactions into their opposite is known as:

Who was the first Phycologist?

Write a well-integrated assignment using Personality Psychology (The Person-Centered Approach), Positive Psychology and Psychopathology as applied to the case study of Paul.