The document discusses the implications of Bandura's social learning theory in various scenarios, highlighting how children exposed to negative behaviors, such as a mother's drug use, may develop maladaptive behaviors and emotional instability. It also examines the impact of social modeling on a college freshman's exposure to drinking and a 50-year-old woman's reaction to beauty advertisements, emphasizing the risk of developing harmful behavioral patterns. Additionally, the text explores the application and ethical considerations of operant conditioning in various professional contexts.

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Exercise on Behavioral and Social Theories
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a. Given the circumstance of a person at witness of their mother’s constant drug use
and promiscuous sex with several men a week, and thus, under the context of understanding the
theorization of Bandura’s theory of social learning, we could discuss the case in many domains.
We should discuss that children are known to be in numerous identified “sensitive
periods” at this age, and while especially in reading, language, psychology, behavioral and social
sensitive periods. Bandura himself identified that social learning and modeling has a major
influence on children this age, as the “Bobo-doll experiment” included children around the age
of kindergarteners (Galloti, 2017; Hollingsworth, 2018).
Developmental challenges that could arise from this circumstance are that of the child
suffering from some sort of dysfunction due to unhealthy attachment, maladaptive caregiving,
and not to mention that the child may face repercussions physically or mentally, or
physiologically, by being a victim of involuntary inhalation of drugs. The child if witnessing the
behavior, and would or could be affected by the modeling and chaining that is taking place in the
child’s life, that occurs disrupting their understanding of healthy social interactions, behaviors,
and emotional stability.
The child could suffer reactive attachment, the child could undergo disruption to all areas
of normal functioning, while both learning maladaptive behaviors, and while also having their
emotional stability, behavioral understandings and comprehensions of adequate social
organization disrupted, and at such a critical period of development, in which mostly depends on

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needing their basic needs met. A child at this age is vulnerable and in the critical periods of
learning proper coping, behaviors, routines, language, detachment or displacement, associations,
morals, interpretations, and basic manifestation of psychological, emotional and/or behavioral
networks/networking.
The effects of this type of behavior of the mother could endanger the child to the
behaviors or impulses of the strangers, could instigate vulnerabilities in the child for latter
disorders or sicknesses, the child is at risk of critical stages of development being interrupted,
and most likely the child will react to the situation, seeking basic and other hierarchical needs to
be met and exceeded (while growing into a school-aged person), they would thus inherit a
maladaptive style of behavior and social interaction (Galotti, 2017; Hollingsworth, 2018).
b. In the case of a new college freshmen, and in the context of Bandura’s social
learning theory, we can understand that the freshman is under an electorally superior or ongoing
stress. This ongoing process of witnessing others drinking, while not being a drinker can
instigate words and heuristics in our minds about the actual processes happening.
The student will is “desensitized” to the severity or actuality of the drinking going on,
mostly likely the person’s education on safety and wellness involving alcohol is being tested or
contested, and the person is being stressed by these experiences, they are being “modeled” for,
and these experiences are chaining a movement in which the individual will be at diathesis of,
while they may be being exposed to many people that are developing bad habits and perhaps
drinking disorders that are classified as psychiatric illnesses. They are then predisposed to the
opportunity to begin a routine of drinking alcohol and may be at-risk then for all of the negative
effects, results, events, or risks in which many drinkers are such as drug use, binging, alcohol

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amnesia, alcohol myopia, addiction, abuse, violence, drinking and driving, breaking the law and
more so.
c. In the instance of a 50-year-old women seeing television about coloring hair, she
is obviously being exposed heavily to these commercials and actresses and models behind the
advertisements. According to Bandura’s theory, this person may fall into the social stresses and
required impressions. The person will obviously be impacted, influenced, and manipulated by
the advertisement on numerous levels such as levels of suggestive psychology, neuromarketing,
behavioral economics, and emotional pressures to buy the products. The individual will be at risk
of an impressed “heuristical thinking” pattern about the dye, hair, and hair products, learning
norms, expectations and internal desires by that of the social models laid ahead of the individual.
The individual will be at risk of reckless stresses of empiricism.
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a. In my own life, operant conditioning is a very deep rooted, and unconscious but inherent
processes that I work with, and that takes place in and throughout most all of my time and
life. Such that of training and practicing medicine is a good example, while brain training is
another adjunct to this work, but nonetheless too, a good example. In these processes we can
train ourselves and the brain best by using operant conditioning, as it is an application that is as
hardwired or as automatic and intertwined just as are our reflexes.
We see that if we can make ourselves happy and our brain’s happy on time, and with a
specific reward or by providing an overall cycle of achievement, we are nearly able to do
anything, given that the system, formulas and agendas are achievable. When we can systemize
when we are feeling bad, and feel bad when we need to, and when it is important to, we can train
ourselves, and in every single area of our brains, bodies, and psychological mechanisms, to make

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less mistakes, to think more, to make our brains and bodies work more, for, and with the reward
of achieving good feelings, and by using bad feelings as alarms and terms of boundaries to
provide us guidance and foresight.
Now practicing, I see that sometimes I can avoid an error if I do not work to “feel good”
when with a patient, and when I feel that something has gone bad, I know this feeling, because I
am “conditioned” to feel and not to feel things, when I feel things then that are abnormal, my
psychology narrates this. We know our limits and boundaries only by pushing them and passing
them, and being able to learn from these experiences towards a better light and application.
b. I work with many people, and including kids or hard to reach children and adults.
Operant conditioning is a useful tool when utilized right, and when utilized carefully and
considerably for the health and wellbeing for the people involved. This is a slippery slope,
because we can see than operant conditioning is very much used and abused in our modern
world, and rarely are the people using this method of psychology, using it according to ethical
standards and accurate contemplation about humanity (or otherwise) in general.
I use operant conditioning when working with people, by giving strokes, motiving them,
making moments count, and bypassing some language, comments, points or conversations, using
positive energy and positive psychology, and narrating things that I know that they are doing
good, when they are doing things that I know will benefit them.
c. I notice that operant conditioning is a very well-established form of communicating,
power and psychology in our modern-day society. People I know that use operant conditioning
range from doctors, nurses, psychologists, counselors, teachers, directors, technicians at medical
facilities, and even managers, administrators, secretaries, schedulers and front desk phone
operators. In my experiences lately, I have noticed that the function of operant condition can do

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about just anything in our world as far as movement, and combustion in society and man, but
again, I feel that the majority of the world is unqualified to touch this contrivance, as it is a
dangerous mechanism of action, that of taking place in the psychological underpinnings of how
man and people use thoughts and reflexes with behaviors and actions.

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