...Nguyen Thi Duyen Wednesday & Friday at 8:15am- 11:30am Course Name: Composition Enhanced 45229 ASSIGNMENT 1 Topic: A process how to make good presentation for students in college. It is truly to said that, currently, people prefer to speak than write when expressing an own idea as well as opinion about something. However, amost people do not know how to make effective presentation as sharing in front of crowded. To make our ideas get logically and clearly, you make sure that you have some internal and external skills. If I have a chance, I will share with you my own best way to get a wonderful presentation. Here are several steps that you can follow. First of all, finding a topic as a begining step when make a demonstration. To do it well, we should indicate who is your audience? Because if we are asked by a group of people on a specific topic, actually we see that the audiences is interested in what we are going to say and let them know you have deep and large knowledge relate to current topic. Next, you will have to choose a specific and interesting topic that you intend. It can be choosing a topic that interests your audiences because joining in a presentation seemed to be hard for partly people, they will have a motivation to hear when some details are attractive or related to. You may take a topic that interests you strongly. If that topic really interests you, there also has a good opportunity that it is going to interest them. In case you do not excited about...
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...English 118-3892 19 April 2016 Way to Better Life through Habits Charles Duhigg, the author of the Book called “The power of Habit” asserts “Habit can be changed if we understand how they work.” Duhigg wants to explain that understanding the instructor of habit is one of the most important steps for changing bad habits. Individuals who understand the habit loop can change bad habits and lead to more productive, healthier and successful life. Understanding the habit loop is the first and most important step for getting know how the habit works. As Duhigg mentioned in his book “Simply understanding how habit work-learning the structure of habit loop-makes them easier to control” (10).When the person decide to get rid of a habit, he needs to get important information about that habit, then the person can exactly focus on that habit and start the process to change that habit. These information’s are not achievable but by understanding the habit loop and individuals can act on changing habits with more chances of success. The habit loop starts with a cue, which is then followed by an almost automatic action (routine), which is reinforced by a last step called reward. Then the loop is ready to begin again. Some example can make this habit loop more easy to understand. A person wants to start exercising every morning, at the beginning, she needs to choose a cue like going to gym as soon as she wakes up or put the sporting clothes where she see them (next to her bed).Then...
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...provided in this book should in no way considered to be medical, legal or financial advice. The author specifically disclaims any liability that is incurred from the use or application of any information provided by the book Basically Put... This book is copyrighted, so don't distribute it without prior expressed permission from the author. Unauthorized distributions hurt myself and my capacity to make more guides such as this. Second, I provide advice in this book, but use your head! Don't do anything dangerous and I'm not responsible for any self-inflicted damage. Table of Contents Introduction.............................4 Intro My Story What is a Habit The First Push Consistency Initial Leverage Operant Conditioning Changing Habits of Thought Intro to Habitual Mastery Trial Periods............................14 Habitual Mastery........................67 Writing Your Plan and Commitment Achieving Goals Through Habits Advanced Methods.................37 Intro to Advanced Methods Triggers Replacement Theory The First Thirty Days Dealing With Logistics Summary of Thirty Day Trials Questions to Ask Yourself The First Steps About the Author Links and Resources Acknowledgments Introduction “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle Do you have a habit you want to change? Maybe you want to quit smoking, stop eating unhealthy foods or turn around negative thoughts. Do you have a habit you want to create? Maybe you...
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...Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits PSY/250 Psychology of Personality Faye Flanagan December 9, 2013 Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits Can habits be changed or broken? Change is a process that does not happen overnight and generally it can create doubt or take a person down a winding road to their past. The result of change can be twofold and the impact depending on the person can be detrimental. For some that trip can be the very thing that improves their life or the quality of their life; for others change has the potential to cause more harm than good depending on their internal drive or emotional state of mind. From time to time it is necessary for a person to conduct a self-evaluation. Generally this activity occurs when the person wants to make a change thus the change process tends to be a smoother process than when an acquaintance, employer or friend has pointed out a flaw or offered some type of a critique. Those situations are considered as forced change and pose some type of resistance. Forced change is normally uncomfortable and causes people to leave their emotion or physical comfort zone. To answer the initial question, yes habits can be broken or changed. However, when attempting to break a habit it will be imperative to be realistic, honest, and willing to confront the past. A few years ago I noticed that something was not right. I was feeling depressed, tired, and everything irritated me. During a self-evaluation...
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...Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits Instructor: Dr. Joycelynn Flowers-Ashton According to the world population clock, there is over 7.2 Billion people on earth and it is growing constantly by the second. And each and every one of us have different and similar ways that we behave that we use to progress our growth in life. As we grow we develop patterns of behavior that are called habits. Whenever we receive the mature stage of adulthood, some of the things we use to do will cease to be in our reasoning of actions. If the behavior that we used to do, does not cease, it may be due to mental disorder or some sort of tragic incident. Habit is defined as a regular tendency, or practice that is hard to give up. Every person on earth has a habit and I am no different. I used to be a person of many flaws in my younger days, and like many people I hand an addiction that became a habit and routine that I did, and I did not consider it to be of any harm to me, but I as I grew up, I realized that I was in fact causing a lot of pain to many because the habit that I had. When habit are done, many people may ignore the negative side effects of their actions because of their levels of either pleasure in doing the habits that they may not see that they need to stop. Maturity in a person is something that can be downfall if they are not informed correctly of how things are supposed to be to have a normal, happy life. The clinical term for the behavior and habits that I had is called hypersexual...
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...Forming Habits PSY/250 Forming Habits I was raised in a family with three brothers and I had to prove myself all the time. I always felt someone else was telling me how to do things and how to run my live instead of me being able to live my own life and learn from my mistakes. Growing up with three brothers who were already in the habit of arguing when I was adopted into the family, it seems it was hard not to pick up the same habit. Were there role models for this habit? I would not call arguing a good habit. Therefore I would not state my brothers were role molds for this habit, but an influence. When there are three people around you doing the same thing, it is hard to break the habit even as we get older. To date, my brothers still argue with each other. They have to prove their point. One of my little brothers is a lawyer. I guess this is a great way for him to prove his point. Unfortunately this is a trait that my children have picked up from me. My children argue with each other and myself because they feel they have to prove themselves. They argue with me and for some reason, I allowed them to at an earlier age. My children are now 17 and almost 16. They argue with me more to the point that they will not just drop it and let it be. Everyone has to have the last word except my husband. He is the only one that will drop it or walk away. He hates the arguing. I do as well and ask the children to drop it but they do not listen. I know this is my fault because I...
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...cognitive or social approach. The cognitive approach focuses on the way one can explain the disorders and behaviors through the cognitive processes. It explores the internal mental processes and the way people perceive, memorize, believe and solve problems. Cognitive is psychology that is relative to human behaviors that focuses on the way people think and such thought process that affect their way of behaviors. Discussion One of my habits is smoking, and I developed this habit due to influence from my peer group at the college. The role models for the smoking habit were some of my friends who used to smoke cigarettes. When I joined the college, I used not to smoke. However, when I joined a group of friends who used to drink and smoke, I found myself smoking too, and it became a daily habit. Some of the people who influenced me to adopt this habit are my roommates. This is because they used to smoke daily when we have left the lecture room going to sleep. They encourage me and I started smoking slowly, but it became a habit. From the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2006), a habit is acquired behavior pattern being developed through constant repetition. Therefore, I kept smoking every day, and the smoking behavior became automatic. I now continue smoking because I am addicted to it. This is because smoking has caused some changes in my body and the way I act to them thus continuing to smoke. The changes in the ways I act have now developed...
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...Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits 1. Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits Chris Stahl University of Phoenix Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits 2. Habits form in all of us in every aspect of our lives in everything we do. The cognitive portion in the way we view our habits as good or bad will influence us to either change our habits or hold onto them for a lifetime. Habits are not concrete and are dropped and adopted overtime, a continuous learning process. A habit is something that we no longer think about because it is such a regularity almost becoming involuntary behavior. A person may not even realize that they are doing something the same over and over because it is second nature. Sometimes habits can carry over into other things we may not intent, like a person that wakes up early Monday through Friday for work. On Saturday and Sunday the habit will carry over forcing them to wake up and start their day. It may be difficult to remember where and why a certain habit has been adopted unless you really focused on finding its origin. The common belief is that we simply adopt our parent’s habits (development, 2010). Sometimes when confronted with one of our strange habits we may deny them right away because we are not conscious to the fact that we are actually doing them. One of my big habits is being a neat freak; I have maintained this habit since I was a young child. I cannot...
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...How to Break a Bad Habit Julia R Scott AIU Online Abstract People deal with habits every day. It may be biting nails, smoking, sexual addictions, alcohol, drugs, and even popping or cracking one’s knuckles. In this essay three successful tips will be addressed on how to break bad habits in an everyday life. How to Break a Bad Habit In everyday life, people deal with all kinds of habits. Habits usually start off as a single thought, and then become a multitude of thoughts which creates habits. Habits can make up our character, and this character can dictate our life. It is up to a person to stop the initial negative thought from becoming a variety of negative thoughts, if not these thoughts may bring harm or destroy the person as a whole. In this essay, three tips, going cold turkey, replacing the habit, and avoidance will be discussed in order to show how these useful tools can help in guiding through to make a choice to break bad habits. Going Cold Turkey With some bad habits, being abstinent is a goal- trying to have no further relationship whatsoever with the habit. Using this as a way to break away is for people who have habits that will cause physical harm to one’s health and well-being. Usually in 12 step programs such as alcohol anonymous will use abstinence in order to change habits with ones who uses and abuses chemical substances. When a person goes cold turkey, one has to walk away from it or just completely turn their back on it. One may...
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...Bad habits interrupt your life and prevent you from accomplishing your goals. They jeopardize your health — both mentally and physically. And they waste your time and energy. So why do we still do them? And most importantly, is there anything you can do about it? I’ve previously written about the science of how habits start, so now let’s focus on the practice of making changes in the real world. How can you delete your bad behaviors and stick to good ones instead? I certainly don’t have all of the answers, but keep reading and I’ll share what I’ve learned about how to break a bad habit. What causes bad habits? Most of your bad habits are caused by two things… Stress and boredom. Most of the time, bad habits are simply a way of dealing with stress and boredom. Everything from biting your nails to overspending on a shopping spree to drinking every weekend to wasting time on the internet can be a simple response to stress and boredom. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can teach yourself new and healthy ways to deal with stress and boredom, which you can then substitute in place of your bad habits. Of course, sometimes the stress or boredom that is on the surface is actually caused by deeper issues. These issues can be tough to think about, but if you’re serious about making changes then you have to be honest with yourself. Are there certain beliefs or reasons that are behind the bad habit? Is there something deeper — a fear, an event, or a limiting...
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...approach contrasts with the cognitive or social approach. The cognitive approach focuses on the way one can explain the disorders and behaviors through the cognitive processes. It explores the internal mental processes and the way people perceive, memorize, believe and solve problems. Cognitive is psychology that is relative to human behaviors that focuses on the way people think and such thought processes that affect their way of behaviors (Philosophy 2014). All human beings have behavioral habits. Some of the most talked about behavioral habits are smoking, drinking and/or drug abuse. Fortunately, for me, I don’t possess any of these negative behavioral habits. One of my behavioral habits, which I find can be a negative behavior, is shopping. My desire to go shopping is usually sparked by an uncontrollable urge. I believe my behavioral habit to go shopping was brought on by childhood experiences. As a child, I grew up poor and had to endure relentless teasing from other children because I wore old clothes and hand-me-downs from my older siblings. As I became an adult and a wage earner, I also found myself becoming a compulsive shopper. I would buy a lot of name-brand clothes items, shoes, handbags, etc. It didn’t matter to me that my wages could not support the expensive taste I was beginning to acquire. Nonetheless, I continued in my shopaholic ways. As a wife, my behavioral habit of shopping has had a negative effect on my relationship with my husband. It is the reason...
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...My personal challenge with pessimistic and procrastinating habits In the lecture, we discussed about the pessimistic explanatory style and optimistic explanatory style. These two distinct explanatory styles led completely different form of results in terms of individual performances; the discussion of these explanatory styles was previously proven with various stunning statistics. In 1987, Kamen and Seligman studied on predicted grade point average for the University of Pennsylvania freshmen. Students with overachieving explanatory style have gotten greater grade point average than those of students with underachieving explanatory style (Kamen and Seligman, presented in lecture). Intrigued by the information, I investigated my own problematic explanatory style and related negative results. I hope to identify my own behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and changes in both psychological and neurological perspectives. As my graduation-time comes closer, I had to make a big decision of my life. It was my life changing decision of whether I stay in the United States or go back in my home country. Frankly, I have already made a decision to go back to South Korea a while ago. Yet, I was often confused and nervous about the decision that I have made because of my explanatory style. Since I do not have a plan other than preparing for a graduate school from the moment I leave the school, I know it would be better for me to have optimistic beliefs constantly reminding myself, “I will be okay...
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...become a creature of new habits?” by Janet Rae-Dupree looks at challenges we can meet and recommendations we can follow when we want to change ourselves. Change is difficult because we are familiar with old habit and don’t want to get something new. We also become fearful ourselves when trying to reach new things. Also, when we passed puberty, our brain lost half of valuable capacity that could make change easily. Because when we are older, in our brain, novelty declines and resistance to change increase. On the other hand, the author also gives some recommendations to change like make small, sustainable changes, not a big change, and apply what we have learned in the past to add new habit for the future. I agree with the author of this article for several reasons. People can change themselves but it is too difficult, especially when people turn after 30 age. The first reason is that person’s personality traits tend to stay the same over his or her lifetime. Some of them was born depend on DNA, the others come out with environment. It also mention environment could be molds our biology. The second reason is that we usually incline to stay in the same way and don’t want to try a new thing. In my opinion, I agree with that. Sometimes, I want to change bad habit like lazy trait but it is easy to give up because up to now, I am still good with that. In addition, we fear in our emotion brain. We don’t want to leave “comfort zone” even we are trying positive habits. We fear failure. It...
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... | |The Challenged Thinker |Determine the problems that I have in my |Thinking that there are no problems in my | | |own thinking |thinking | | |Take up new challenges and take control of |Not taking control and taking on new | |The Beginning Thinker |my thinking |challenges | | |Determine new habits that I need to pick up|Not being able to identify the habits that | |The Practical Thinker | |I need | | |Establish good habits |Sticking to bad...
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...Good and queer habits have appended our lives that we hardly think of what causes them. Astoundingly, habits have a great impact on our lives, shaping our happiness, success and failure. The ability to mould the clay of our habits into what is desirable in society and life at large sets successful people aside. This is of the implication that some habits are impediments to our success and happiness and unless they are changed or done away with, we will do much yet accomplish very little in life. Habit change may not be rocket science, but it is certainly not the easiest thing to do. Before settling on one technique geared towards habit change, it is essential to understand the morphology of a habit. It is made up of three components: the routine, reward and cue. The cue is an automatic trigger which brings about the habit while routine is the behaviour itself. The reward is the manner in which the human brain choses to remember and trigger the recurrence of a particular behaviour in future. A rule of the thumb in habit change is to retain the cue and reward while changing the routine section. This way, you don’t have to format the entire system but rather initiate little changes that will earn bigger results. As complex as it may sound, habit change is, has been and remains achievable. Here is a simple technique to achieve this much desired change. Identify the habit that you desire to change There are various behavioural dispositions that people aspire to change or even disengage...
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