Social And Social/Cognitive Approaches To Forming Habits Paper

Behavioral and Social/cognitive Approaches to Forming habits

PYS/250
July/3/13

Behavioral and Social/cognitive Approaches to Forming habits
Behaviorists’ believe that an individual’s personality is based on their environment. Some habits can also be learned through the utilization of punishment and negative reinforcement. Positive reinforcement would reinforce the habit or response and make it more likely to occur. Punishment reinforces avoidance responses or habits primarily.
There is one habit that I have had for years I don’t like anything dirty or out of place in my home and it is a must that the toilet seat or seats remain close I cannot stand for these things to happen in my home. If things are not put back where they belong
Saturday was always the clean-up day the consist of wiping walls and windows down and whatever else she wanted you to do. No one could leave until the whole house was done inside and out. This was done very Saturday. To this day I clean my house very Saturday it is a habit and if I know company is on the way I still dust and vacuum the floor.
I know that watching my mother for years condition me to be particular about how I like my surroundings to be, but somehow I got extreme with it. This was my observational learning. I thought that this is how a person is supposed to be because that’s all I knew. I thought that the reason people came over was because they liked how our house was because I would her them always say how beautiful everything was. In my mind I thought this is what she wanted them to say. I like to hear those compliments too when I have someone at my home. This was the self-regulation process. Since I felt that this was a good thing I was even happier to know that I was able to do these things like my mother did. This is self-efficacy. I believe that I am good at making my surroundings good and neat and my mother likes how I keep my home. This makes my mother happy to know that I followed in her footsteps and in return I’m happy that she likes that about me. This is
I have to realize that I am not the only one living in this house and everybody that comes to my home does not know that I want the seat down after they use the bath room. So my plan is to understand that and try not to get so irritated if the seat is up.
I have to say that the behavioral theories best explains my personality The habits that I have learned were observed as a child my mother raised me to do things a certain way. I looked at what she taught me as something positive. As a child it didn’t make me sad or happy it was a way of life for me and I stayed with me. I learned from situations and advice given to me by family members I have always been so what quiet and observant I was perfect I also got in trouble sometimes. But when I saw my siblings get in trouble that was my cue to straighten up.
There are different ways that people developed their habits sometimes your environment may play a parts of your personality, how a person is raised, where a person is raised, even who raised an individual can affect your personality. Sometimes generational things that are in our unconscious mind can mold our