The On Human Behavior Is Learning From Our Environment

Making it through hard times is challenging but worth it at the end. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret to success.” - Swami Sivananda

There is also the argument between behaviourists to whether behaviour is learnt better through positive or negative reinforcement. Positive reinforcement is when someone does something correctly and we reward them with a sweet or chocolate. A strength of this is that the individual will repeat the action again, but a limitation is that the individual will expect the reward every time.

According to Kail and Cavanaugh the theory established by Skinner known as operant conditioning is a “learning paradigm in which the consequences of a behavior determine whether a behavior is repeated in the future” (p. 13). This theory to an extent, parallels the previous theory of operant conditioning but is also important in trying to understand why one makes the decisions they do as well as how often they partake in certain behaviors. Through his theory Skinner displayed that there are two types of consequences, reinforcement and punishment, in which one increases the chances of repeated behavior and the other vice versa. Reinforcement is the component that increases the likeliness of repeated behavior and includes two divisions, negative and positive. Negative reinforcement is that in which a person’s

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken. Human behavior is a universal concept, everyone was born with them but many of us respond to them differently. Human behavior is how people act like and how they are toward other people. It is emotions and feelings on how we act on them and when we can. Our willpower and determination for the things we want for ourselves and other people and the world and if we actually do them and how it affects others if we do. Emotions and behavior go hand in hand. Our emotions are how you respond to your feelings. The concept of human behavior teaches us how to have our mind set on things that happen throughout our lives. People seem to only see what they want to see. Here

Social work has long recognized the relationship between the behavior of an individual and the environment in which the individual interacts (Hutchison, 2008). Human behavior theories offer a framework to organize, interpret and understand this relationship (Hutchison, 2008). For this case study, the following three theories will be examined for relevancy: Life cycle theory, role theory and resiliency theory.

Lately, I’ve been writing about motivation because, it being the start of the school year, I am dying to know how to help my students (nearly all of whom start the year wanting to do well) persist in motivating themselves to do the year’s work and achieve a year’s worth (or more) of growing into people who will flourish long-term. Motivation is their job, and it’s my job to teach them how to do their job better.

Sustaining motivation can be tough under the best of circumstances. One of the ways to stay motivated is to set a goal and visualize it down. For athletes, they visualize their performance ahead of time. Another way is to make a list of the reasons you want to accomplish the goal. It is crucial to write down the list with a pen. Moreover, when people write by their hand and connect the letters manually, they engage the brain more actively in the process. A different way to maintain inspired is to break the goal down into smaller pieces. Furthermore, if people take on a project and try to do the whole thing all at once, they are going to be overwhelmed. They need to break it down into the smallest realistic steps and only do one at a time. In A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Beah was a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. His village was attacked by rebels. Then, he was forced to join an army unit who brainwashed him into using guns and drugs. Later on, he witnessed a great deal of violence and UNICEF removed him from the army and put him into a rehabilitation program. With the help of some of the staff, he was able to return to a normal civilian life and get off drugs. Even though Beah had a terrible experience from the civil war, he was able to stay strong through willpower, not listening to peer pressure, and eventually had no free will to disobey his superior commanders.

Motivation is a key driving force in most human beings and lies hidden to be discovered

argued that, “A behavior is more likely to reoccur if it has been reinforced or rewarded. Thus reinforcement

Therefore, there is a requirement to expand the discussion about however reinforcement affects behaviour. Reinforcement is seen as: “an event, a circumstance, or a condition that increases the chance that a given response can recur in a scenario like that within which the reinforcing condition originally occurred” (TAHMDC, 2007). Meanwhile, Azrin and Holz (1966, cited in Skiba and Deno, 1991) defined penalty thus:

Originally, reinforcement learning was motivated by “animal learning of sequential behavior, but has been developed and extended in the field of machine learning as an approach to Markov decision processes” (Ishii and Yoshida, 2006, p. 326). According to Andersen and Sandaker (2010), “A reinforcer is a stimulus which affects the probability of the kind of behaviour that produces it.? There can be both positive reinforcers and negative reinforcers. One where “behaviour that produces stimuli that reinforce consequences will increase.” The other is where “behaviour that produces these stimuli decreases or behaviour that removes them or postpones them increases.” Therefore, “many reinforcing stimuli are unconditional and function as reinforcers without prior learning. man is a

Sometimes it’s easier for someone else to motivate a person than for that person to motivate themselves, but I believe the theory discussed in the book “MIND OVER MOOD” that a person has to change the way they think in order to change how they feel. If they change their perspective on things their motivations will change too. Motivation to me is this - setting goals, hammering into your mind to finish what you’ve started, associating with motivated people and positive thinkers, and being persistent and patient.

One of the simplest and most commonly-used methods of conceptualizing learning is that of reinforcement theory (Noe 2010: 142). Every time a parent promises a child a toy for being good during a grocery store trip or threatens a teen with being grounded for bad grades, he or she is using reinforcement theory. Reinforcement theory is based upon the assumption that people want to experience as much pleasure as possible and avoid pain. Thus, businesses offer workers bonuses for good work, and issue reprimands (such as docking pay or denying a promotion) for poor behavior.

Motivation can come from two sources, from inside of you and from outside of you. It can come from your hopes and expectations. It is from your desire to do something or to be someone, but not everyone is highly

Motivation is the key to succeeding our goals and dreams. You can do anything that you set your mind to as long as you continue to motivate yourself and others around you. Keeping a positive attitude and having an end goal in mind to work towards, you will be able to find the motivation