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Daniel Bridgmon PSY-211 Lifespan Development Melissa Collins March 19, 2023

One behavior I have learned from living in the southern United States from a young age is “What you should do in case of a tornado warning for your county” The Stimulus would be the warning/alert revived from a weather radio, tv, or outdoor air raid type sirens because a tornado has been spotted or the weather radar is showing a rotating storm. The response would be grabbing your pets, going to the most inferior room/lowest room in your home away from windows/doors, and putting on a helmet until the warning is over for the area. This is an actual threat, so I am definitely aware of the behavior and the benefits of what I do. Being that we live in an area of the United States that has tornados and severe weather year-round but significantly in the springtime we always weather aware for the most part. I would say in this case it would be a positive behavior that was reinforced on April 27, 2011. On that day 62 tornadoes went through the state of Alabama and 240 people died. (Morgan, 2022) I was one of the people living in Tuscaloosa, AL the day that the F- 4 tornado went through two streets over from where I was living. I went to the bottom area and protected my head in my bathtub. I survived but my house and car did not. The only comparable thing to how the city looked after the tornado was what I’d imagine a bomb going off would look like. Others weren’t as lucky but having been trained since I was a small child, our local weatherman James Spann taught us to “respect the polygon” when you are inside that area. (Morgan, 2022) Without this conditioned behavior I might have died instead of telling my story. One behavior I have changed in response to external stimuli is being utterly terrified of storms. For a long time, I had a panic attack from PTSD after that tornado. Seeing the destruction and devastation first really set me into a toxic relationship with storms. I was

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