Each person in this world of seven billion is different. Each person looks different, sounds different, and most importantly, behaves differently. Why is this? Besides the fact that we as humans have unique codes of DNA and different genetics, we also each have different sets of behaviors. These behaviors shape who we are and what we do (Zimbardo; McCann; Johnson; 2013). The amount of information under the umbrella of Behaviorism is far too much to include in a single report, but if we focus on a specific scenario, say an individual teenager, we can create a more in-depth analysis. Fortunately, I am a teenager and therefore I can psychoanalyze myself. Throughout the years of my remembered life, I have discovered why I do the things I do. I
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One way a person becomes conditioned to a response is through consequences (Zimbardo; McCann; Johnson, 2013). We can control these consequences be enacting rewards and punishments (Zimbardo; McCann; Johnson). One personal example would be how I learned my mannerisms. When I was a child, my parents were very consistent with their rewards and punishments, which proves to be effective based on past research (Zimbardo; McCann; Johnson, 2013). One memory I can recall is when I would ask for dinner but wouldn’t receive any food. I quickly realized that demanding food followed by a “please” and “thank you” would result in me having a full stomach. Then the negative reinforce came into play when I would refuse to say “please.” My parents would retaliate to this with a time-out session. This is when I realized two things: I do not like time-outs and I do not like being hungry. Because of this consistent reward and punishment system, I quickly learned the traits that my parents wanted me to have; such as manners, closing doors, and talking with a nice tone. On the other hand, this system didn’t last past my early teens. After my main reinforce, my dad, passed away, I was forced to use this system on myself. I found that rewarding myself was easier than punishing myself; however, I managed to create a system. In order to keep my grades high, I would punish myself …show more content…
One of my favorite memories of my father was when I would copy everything he did. When he would get home from a bad day at work, he would walk over to the sliding glass door and clean. I noticed that this is how he took out his anger, so on one of my bad days at school, I decided to try it. I found it very effective and could finally understand why my father had always done it. It wasn’t until later that I discovered that this was called observational learning (Zimbardo; McCann; Johnson, 2013). A similar method to observational learning is something called imitation. Imitation is when learning occurs through the viewing and reenacting of someone else’s behavior (Zimbardo, McCann, Johnson, 2013). An example of this is when I saw my mother’s current boyfriend hit the dog when it was bad. I completely disagree with hitting animals but when one of the dogs accidentally bit me, I slapped its jaw without thinking. Regret immediately followed and I have never hit an animal since, but the thought that I instinctively hit an animal confused me. I realized what had happened when I read “Researchers have recently identified that both violence exposure and negative affective experiences are related to the development of aggressive behaviors” (Ebesutani, pg. 1, 2014). I later purposefully caused this behavior to become extinct because my response to myself doing something that horrible forced me to never want
One way a person becomes conditioned to a response is through consequences (Zimbardo; McCann; Johnson, 2013). We can control these consequences be enacting rewards and punishments (Zimbardo; McCann; Johnson). One personal example would be how I learned my mannerisms. When I was a child, my parents were very consistent with their rewards and punishments, which proves to be effective based on past research (Zimbardo; McCann; Johnson, 2013). One memory I can recall is when I would ask for dinner but wouldn’t receive any food. I quickly realized that demanding food followed by a “please” and “thank you” would result in me having a full stomach. Then the negative reinforce came into play when I would refuse to say “please.” My parents would retaliate to this with a time-out session. This is when I realized two things: I do not like time-outs and I do not like being hungry. Because of this consistent reward and punishment system, I quickly learned the traits that my parents wanted me to have; such as manners, closing doors, and talking with a nice tone. On the other hand, this system didn’t last past my early teens. After my main reinforce, my dad, passed away, I was forced to use this system on myself. I found that rewarding myself was easier than punishing myself; however, I managed to create a system. In order to keep my grades high, I would punish myself …show more content…
One of my favorite memories of my father was when I would copy everything he did. When he would get home from a bad day at work, he would walk over to the sliding glass door and clean. I noticed that this is how he took out his anger, so on one of my bad days at school, I decided to try it. I found it very effective and could finally understand why my father had always done it. It wasn’t until later that I discovered that this was called observational learning (Zimbardo; McCann; Johnson, 2013). A similar method to observational learning is something called imitation. Imitation is when learning occurs through the viewing and reenacting of someone else’s behavior (Zimbardo, McCann, Johnson, 2013). An example of this is when I saw my mother’s current boyfriend hit the dog when it was bad. I completely disagree with hitting animals but when one of the dogs accidentally bit me, I slapped its jaw without thinking. Regret immediately followed and I have never hit an animal since, but the thought that I instinctively hit an animal confused me. I realized what had happened when I read “Researchers have recently identified that both violence exposure and negative affective experiences are related to the development of aggressive behaviors” (Ebesutani, pg. 1, 2014). I later purposefully caused this behavior to become extinct because my response to myself doing something that horrible forced me to never want