Classical Conditioning Model

1. Why is a basic understanding of the medical and psychiatric models important?
This is because “medical and psychiatric problems are the more frequent…problems from people in need” (98). This lead to the “medical and psychiatric models” being “the most common for conceptualizing human problems and dealing with people in need” (98). This is the reason that a basic knowledge of these two models are important.
2. How does HIV/AIDS illustrate the relationship between the medical and psychiatric models and human services?
With HIV/AIDS being a physical disease that attacks the body it requires the medical approach to slow down its physical effects. At the same time the patient may need human services’ assistance in providing “medical care,

What are some of the common treatment strategies of the psychiatric model?
One of these strategies is Electroconvulsive Therapy and is used to treat severe depression. These days it is conducted under sedation and has no resemblance to the maltreatment that is portrayed in the movies. Another strategy are the Chemotherapies which are drug treatments. The different Chemotherapies include “antianxiety agents, antidepressants, antimanics or mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, and the new atypical antipsychotics.

CH. 7 pg. 111
1. What are the four models of learning behavior?
a. The classical conditioning model is when an unconditioned response to a stimulus can be elicited from another stimulus, in which it becomes a conditioned response (ex. Pavlov’s dogs)(112-113).
b. The operant behavior model is concerned with consequences in response to behavior. There are seven concepts, the generalization, discrimination, punishment, positive reinforcement, withdrawal of positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, and extinction (113-115).
c. The social learning model is a process in which a person observes behavior is another and makes a mental image so that they can copy the behavior. This model also uses the classical and social models to refine the behavior

One way that disordered behavior could be learned is through classical conditioning, for example, if the dogs received a minor shock instead of food at the sound of the bell, or the example of the baby, the rat and the loud noise. In both examples the subjects will develop a fear and if not tended to, it would become a phobia. Also, disordered behaviors can be learned in the operant model be reinforcing disordered behavior so that it continues to happen. An example would be a criminal that lives in a community that accepts that behavior and praises the behavior