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Child abuse and maltreatment is not limited to a particular age—it can occur in the infant, toddler, preschool, and school-age years. Choose one of the four age groups and outline the types of abuse most commonly seen among children of that age. Describe warning signs and physical and emotional assessment findings the nurse may see…
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Environmental Factors and Health Promotion Presentation: Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion for Parents and Caregivers of Infants The growth, development, and learned behaviors that occur during the first year of infancy have a direct effect on the individual throughout a lifetime. For this assignment, research an environmental factor that poses a threat to the health…
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NRS-434VN Health Assessment Full Course GCU Topic 1 DQ 1 Describe the effect of extremely low birth weight babies on the family and community. Consider short-term and long-term impacts, socioeconomic implications, the need for ongoing care, and comorbidities associated with prematurity. Explain how disparities relative to ethnic and cultural groups may contribute to low-birth-weight babies.…
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A mother comes in with 9-month-old girl. The infant is 68.5cm in length (25th percentile per CDC growth chart), weighs 6.75kg (5th percentile per CDC growth chart), and has a head circumference of 43cm (25th percentile per CDC growth chart). Describe the developmental markers a nurse should assess for a 9-month-old female infant. Discuss the…
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Assignment: Application of Respondent (Classical) Conditioning Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is heavily influenced by operant conditioning. The vast majority of your curriculum in ABA focuses on operant conditioning and its applications. However, respondent (classical) conditioning also has its appropriate applications in ABA. The behaviorist assumptions that all learning occurs through observable interactions with the environment…
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Discussion: Respondent and Operant Conditioning Operant and respondent (classical) conditioning are both used to establish and modify behaviors. These concepts originated in the field of behavioral psychology and share similarities and differences. Perhaps the clearest example of the difference between the two concepts is whether the behavior to be modified is automatic (i.e., involuntary) or…
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Week 8: Respondent and Operant Conditioning Among the foundational concepts of applied behavior analysis (ABA) are respondent (classical) conditioning and operant conditioning. While operant conditioning clearly dominates the ABA field, there are also appropriate uses of respondent (classical) conditioning. In both cases, the behavior analyst seeks to manipulate the environment in order to effect behavior…
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In this week’s Discussion, you identified and defined examples of behavior, response, and response class from your own behavioral repertoire. For this Assignment, using your behavioral repertoire, you will further explore these concepts by identifying another response class and five corresponding responses. Additionally, you will analyze which of the five responses you use most frequently…
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Discussion: Behavior and Environment “Behavior analysis is characterized by a functional analysis of the effects of the behavior on the environment. A response class is a group of responses with the same function (that is, each response in the group produces the same effect on the environment)” (Cooper et al., 2020, p. 27) PSYC 6717:…
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Week 7: Behavior and Environment Have you ever observed yourself, or someone you know, avoiding a task? Perhaps the task was avoided instead by texting a friend, getting something to eat, or hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock. Those behaviors represented specific instances of behavior, or responses. And while they took different forms,…