Behavior Change Reflection Paper
If I’m being completely honest, I have a long list of things I would like to change about myself. I’m sure everyone does, but personally I could pick out my flaws better than I could pick out my strengths. The weird thing is, however, I genuinely like myself. I think I’m pretty great and that my imperfections are what makes me who I am. With all of that said, I would still like to be more refined and love myself rather than just like myself. The one behavior that I really want to focus on is my need to over analyze and over think. Of all my flaws I know that this is the one holding me back the most because I tend to talk myself out of things I would actually like to do. It’s also the reason a lot of things haven’t gone, my way in the past either. I’m always trying to protect my family’s name and tending to their happiness rather than my own. It’s stressful and quite frankly, annoying. I’m not sure how I'm going to implement this change yet. I’m going to take it on a day to day basis the first week or two, then foe the final two weeks Id set weekly goals. Sometime in the middle I’d like to start saying yes whenever the opportunity to try new
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I hate admitting that I need to change also so it was a little hard motivating myself to actually do it. Before the assignment I know that I wanted to be more open and spontaneous in my life and the only thing preventing me from doing such things was the extent to which I over analyzed. When I had to open up to my helper in class, I didn’t think that they would understand how my brain works and I didn’t want to be judged so I omitted a lot of the details of my actual behavior change and told them that I just wanted to do more things that I’ve never done. I let little bits and pieces of my actual behavior change through, but I never admitted that I wanted to change how I
One target behavior needing change is to recognize symptoms of diseases and to get regular check-ups. These two were chosen as one behavior change because they both go hand in hand in preventing diseases. For example, by physically examining myself and by determining if something is wrong by what I know I could seriously limit my chances of illness by scheduling an appointment with my doctor. By communicating this information with my doctor we can come up with a diagnosis together by evaluating all the signs and symptoms. Doing both of these behaviors is essential for a healthy disease free body because even though doctors know how to cure and diagnose diseases no one still knows their bodies better then the patient. For example, doctors may diagnose someone with diabetes due to the physical signs they can see, such as ketone body urination; However, because doctors cannot read the patients mind it is possible that the diagnosis is incorrect. One possible scenario could be that the patient drank a lot last night and so they still experiencing splitting headaches and dehydration. Ketone body urination is a sign doctors can see through a urinalysis but the headache is not and so therefore it's considered a symptom because only a patient can determine the headache as being truth. That being said communicating all this information to the doctor could accurately lead them to diagnosing and treating you for alcoholic ketoacidosis instead of diabetes. So therefore if I understand the symptoms of diseases and then schedule an appointment to communicate with my doctor and get examined then I can become as healthy and as well as possible by limiting my chances of physical harm.
John, a 15 year old male, is an 8th grade student attending a local middle school. John is a transfer student from another state and he been placed into an inclusion classroom because he has been identified as a student with a disability and requires an IEP. Lately, John has been verbally and physically disruptive during math class. Some of the disruptive behaviors John often exhibit in the classroom include making loud noises and jokes during instruction, calling his peers names, physically touching his peers, and grabbing group materials. John’s teacher collected data and learned that his verbal disruptive behavior occurs 4-8 times during each sixty minute class meeting, and his physical group disruptions occur 75% of the time he works with a group. After meeting with John’s other teachers, his math teacher learned that his disruptive behavior is only present during math class. According to John’s math test scores on his IEP, his math instructor also learned that math is a challenging subject for John and he is significantly below grade level. Both John’s math teacher and his IEP team reached an agreement that they would like to decrease the number of times John disrupts instruction and eventually eliminate the disruptive behavior. The replacement behavior for John is to remain focused and on task during math instruction and assigned activities without triggering any disruptions (i.e., distracting loud noises or jokes causing the class to go into a laughing uproar, physical contact with peers, name calling, or grabbing his peers’ materials). Instead of John being punished for his disruptive behavior, the replacement behavior would allow him to remain in math class, and he will also be able to receive posit...
Another behavior that I could work on is that I tend to keep some things inside that I dwell on things longer than necessary. For instance, I had my first girlfriend when I was in college. We broke up after a few months, but I had already fallen in love with her, and took the break-up hard. (“My Virtual Life” Emerging Adulthood) I only told a close friend Sarah and my best friend Alex about it, and they both insisted that I go talk to someone about it, but I didn’t go. They said
Schools are in great need of systems, processes, and personnel who are able to support the needs of students with problem behavior. Research indicates, however, that (while I am a big, fat cheater) information has not been made available to teachers and other professionals in a format that allows these strategies to become common practice. Many teachers choose isolated behavioral strategies that are not applied immediately after the problem behavior has occurred.
Behavior modification is based on the principles of operant conditioning, which were developed by American behaviorist B.F. Skinner. In his research, he put a rat in a cage later known as the Skinner Box, in which the rat could receive a food pellet by pressing on a bar. The food reward acted as a reinforcement by strengthening the rat's bar-pressing behavior. Skinner studied how the rat's behavior changed in response to differing patterns of reinforcement. By studying the way the rats operated on their environment, Skinner formulated the concept of operant conditioning, through which behavior could be shaped by reinforcement or lack of it. Skinner considered his discovery applicable to a wide range of both human and animal behaviors(“Behavior,” 2001).
Behavior means the way that someone behaves. Then, modification is the small change to something or the process of changing something slightly, especially to improve it. So, behavior modification means the slightly change of behavior in order to improve it through the present of positive or negative reinforcement. Furthermore, behavior modification also can be manipulated through the punishment as well. On the other hand, behavior modification is a set of techniques that underline with instrumental conditioning (Skinner,1938, 1953). Besides that, behavior modification also include reinforcement and punishment in order to strengthen the desired behavior or to terminate the undesired behavior (Skinner, 1938, 1953).
Everybody has something about themselves and their lives they would like to change. I'm not talking about, "Gee, I need to loose a few pounds," or, "One of these days I really should start going to the gym." I'm talking about things that would change the fundamentals of the person's life.
...I beat myself even if I did well. My personality doesn’t really bother me. I know it is unhealthy for me, but I think it is also what keeps me doing so well in school. I’m sure I have tried to change it at some point in my life, but I have accepted that it’s part of me. Even though it may cause me frustration, it gives me motivation to do better. If others around me feel hurt by this personality, I expect them to approach me about it. I will assess the situation, and deal with it correctly, even if it means changing my ways. I believe this personality will carry into adulthood, and that’s not such a bad thing. It will encourage me to be the best for my children, husband, and in my job. “Giving up because of obstacles is an act of cowardice, but giving up is not a cowarldy act when you give up the bad personality you have and look for a chance to be a better person.”
No matter how much one denies it, everyone has something they want to improve about themselves. Some just have a different way of hiding their flaws than others. It is a little easier for women to hide their imperfections since they can easily wear makeup and hide the things they do not want others to see to a certain extent. Beauty and perfection se...
One of the main goals I will be trying to achieve is to change my bad attitudes. To me, this is the biggest obstacle that is
1. Define one change you would like to make to your self-perception (how you think about yourself). It might be a behavior, a self-fulfilling prophecy, or anything about yourself you would like to alter related to how you think about the person you are.
The stage that I would consider myself to be in the preperaton stage. I am aware that there needs to be a change and am brainstorming ideas on how to begin a goal to make the change possible.
Almost every individual would like to do something to themselves, whether it is with the hair, grooming, general fashion, physical image, diet etc so as to achieve a better appearance. Interestingly, being attractive is easier than you think. Understandably, there are features that are unalterable - those are what make you unique. However, most of us possess many changeable ones, which we can work on using our habits.
In exploring my behaviors that have an effect on my life, it was surprising to hear what my family and peers noticed that I would have never thought about. I mentioned the time spent on social media, my phone, and how my constant need to keep everything clean and organized are behaviors that play a significant role in my life. My family and peers mentioned they see patterns of perfectionism in almost every aspect of my life. Some mentioned how I am picky about cleanliness but more surprisingly was my sister’s answer, where she explains how I am always in a hurry. She described it as living a fast-paced life where I cannot stop because there is too much to do.
So who exactly needs self-improvement? Is it for a specific type of person? Is it for a group of people? Like adults? Or teens? Or even Children?. Is it for the rich or the poor? Self-improvement is needed in everyone. It does not matter who you are, or what you look like, or the background you come from. We all need Self- improvement.To all of us, Self improvement is needed in our daily lives just like we need food and water. It feeds us with understanding, knowledge, character, and wisdom. Coming from experience, I never thought I needed Self-improvement.I thought I was fine and did not need any adjustment in myself. I thought I was a good person with very good qualities, but I was wrong. You can say that one day, I made a tremendous mistake that lead to a regret but it was the wake-up call for me. Long story short, I thought that I did not need to eat and I use to starve myself but because I did that, I had a major blackout which put me in the hospital and almost died. How I said before, it comes from experienc...