Why do people use drugs? Why is it difficult to treat drug abuse? How effective is treatment? What role might a psychologist take in a drug treatment program? Be sure to include examples from the reading. Why do people use drugs?

(Be sure to read chapter 5, module 16 to help you answer this!)Why is it difficult to treat drug abuse? For this element, you could reference specific drug/s and explain what the chemical addiction is and then discuss why treating that addiction may be difficult.

How effective is treatment? For this element, you could reference specific drug/s and explain what the chemical addiction is and then discuss how effective treatment is for specific drug/s.

What role might a psychologist take in a drug treatment program? This question is asking you to think back to what you have learned about psychologists.

hat perspective (behavioral, psychoanalytic, cognitive) would you think be the best approach to help someone in a drug treatment program?

Discussion 2 (answer to this 250 words)

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This question is based on the information we learn in chapter 16. Be sure to read this chapter first, before beginning to answer these questions.

Given what you have learned about learning processes, which type of learning has Lauren experienced?

What do you think is the best way to get her to “unlearn” her behavior?

What implications does this understanding of the learning process have on our ability to make changes in our lifestyle?

Support your reasoning with information from the text and other course materials.

Write a comment to this answer(also this can be example for you for discussion2)

Learning is a behavior acquired through experience (Feldman, p. 168). Lauren has experienced the classical

conditioning process. Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which a neutral stimulus prompts a response after

being paired with a stimulus that naturally brings about that response (Feldman, p. 169). Classical conditioning has a

process (Feldman, p. 169): Neutral stimulus (unnatural response), Unconditioned Stimulus (natural response),

Unconditioned response (occur naturally without training or learning), conditioned stimulus (neutral stimulus paired

with conditional response), and conditioned response (response that occur in response to conditional stimulus). In

Lauren’s case, before conditioning: the doorbell ringing every Monday morning is the neutral stimulus, the doughnut

and coffee would cause the unconditioned response; stomach growling. During conditioning, Lauren’s stomach growls

before the doorbell rings and a hand off of the treats (neutral stimulus paired with unconditional stimulus). After

conditioning, anytime Lauren hears the doorbell (conditional stimulus ) her stomach growls (conditional response).

Lauren could unlearn the behavior by extinction. Understanding classical conditioning allows one to understand how

unwanted habits are formed. To produce extinction you must disassociate the conditioned stimuli from the

unconditioned stimuli (Feldman, p. 172). In Lauren’s case she could have all of the guess to ring the doorbell upon

arrival.