Behavior Modification In My Life

The cardinal instances where I observe wayism in process is related to my household. I am a single p bent of two. I comport a son 21 and young lady 19 who still live at home. We work as a group and behaving appropriately is imperative. font 1 though my children are very close to me and persona exclusively aspects of their lives with me, they s style me to leave them unsocial when they are with their friends.I have observed every(prenominal) the time from their facial expressions and gestures that whenever their friends come to our house, they expect me to leave them alone and non be a part of their group at that point of time.In this instance, the attitude of my children forces me to behave in the way, I do. My inter workions with their friends are limited to a few customary greetings. I adoptt need anyone to tell me to go the other room, because I automatically transport towards other portions of my house when the young guests are around. This is because Many attitu des are so considerably established and so frequently use that people can express them and act on them without a second thought. (Smith and Mackie, 2002, p. 249)Instance 2 Whenever any three of us are late, the other two expects the late arriver to inform how much time would he/she take to return back home and whether it would be possible for him/her to take the dinner with the family. In this instance the principle of inscription guide us to behave the way we do. Smith and Mackie rightly observed, Its not only our commitments to others that leads us. Our commitment to maintaining a convinced(p) view of ourselves helps too. (2000, p. 392) By retentiveness other members of our group informed, all the three of us not only degrade other members anxiety notwithstanding in uniform manner make them know how caring we are.This may cause from each one one of us some discomfort like talking on the mobile magic spell driving, which is sure as shooting not an acceptable behavio r or excusing ourselves from an important lecture for a while which means loosing some precious moments, but we do it any way. therefrom in order to project ourselves in a legitimate manner we slightly go out of the way which is unacceptable from not only the point of view of coarse norms but to our inner self too. Instance 3 Each one of us expect the other two members of our families to do their share of work and not fleece just one person for the tutelage of the house.Though my daughter does not particularly like cleaning her room or lavation the clothes, she does it half-heartedly. In this instance, the behavioral principle of loyalty forces her to behave in a sealed manner which she somewhat dislikes. She routinely engages in the cleaning activities, which strengthens the viewpoint that she is submitting to authority. In this causal agency that authority is not only me, the name but also the way in which we as a family are evaluate to behave to make life easier for ea ch other.She does not want to loose the sanctity of a quiet and well-behaved family of ours by her regular cribbing about the activities she dislikes. Thus she abides by the rules of the family. The impact of behaviorism in customary culture has both negative and positive hints. We behave in a certain manner because we checker others behaving in that manner. In the words of Mixon, behavior is the product of association. (para. 11) Hence when we see others behaving properly we automatically stick their behavior. For example we dont tattle in a library when all the others are quiet. This is a positive implication of behaviorism.However we fall prey to bad behavior too, by seeing others. For example it is not good to litter a commonalty but we dont take up rules when we are in a park, where we see others have already littered it. This is a negative implication of behaviorism. Hence behaviorism conditions us and we get conditioned in both positive and negative ways. References Smith, E. R. , Mackie, D. M. (2 Ed. ). (2000) sociable Psychology. USA Psychology Press. Wagner, K. V. (2008). Retrieved Jan. 21, 2007 from http//psychology. about. com/od/behavioralpsychology/f/behaviorism. htm Mixon, C. (2008). Retrieved Jan. 21, 2007 from http//www. barkingdogs. net/bmod. shtml