Question

1 Sally is diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Discuss the ways in which Sally's memory is most likely affected by this disorder. Compare and contrast Sally's experiences with those of Tilda who is diagnosed with depression.

2. Describe the information processing model and provide a real-life example for each of the three steps.

3. Suppose you want to teach your dog to ring a bell when it needs to be let outside to go to the bathroom. Describe the steps you would go through to operantly condition this behavior. What is this process called?

4. Compare and contrast negative reinforcement and positive reinforcement. Give examples of each to illustrate. Is negative reinforcement the same as positive punishment? Define why or why not.

5. Apply Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences to your own life. Describe and provide examples of the intelligences that you believe you possess in the highest degrees. Also discuss the intelligences of which you possess in lesser degrees. Be sure to mention all nine intelligences.

6. Define cognition and briefly mention the three main areas of thinking, language, and intelligence. Provide three examples (one for each area) of how cognition is often taken for granted in our everyday lives.

Answer 1

1 Sally is diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Discuss the ways in which Sally's memory is most likely affected by this disorder. Compare and contrast Sally's experiences with those of Tilda who is diagnosed with depression.

Many people would be experiencing anxiety feelings before the start of any important event such as a exam or any form of interview, though, anxiety disorders are identified in the form of disorders where the person would be frightened along with being distressed without having any reason about it. If the disorder is not treated, there would be dramatic reduction in productivity along with reduction in the quality of life.

For people having GAD, there would be persistent anxiety or chronic anxiety. This might cause an impact on the daily routine of a person, and might also affect their memory. People who would be having anxiety disorders would be having a functioning memory that would be lower than the normal levels of memory.

• Working memory forms the basis of carrying out day to day work. Also, there would be multitasking problems, as people would begin to forget tasks that are important because of worry.
• People who would e experiencing anxiety, their decision making skills would be compromised.

Memory being affected by depression, is as follows:

• Depression is identified to be linked with problems such as confusion or forgetfulness.
• Depression leads to short term loss of memory. It wouldn’t be affecting procedural memory or long term memory,
• It has been found that some of the people , in depression, couldn’t identify some of the objects that they had known previously.
• Forgetfulness forms a potential side effect because of certain of the medications.