My measurable, specific and realistic goal for this quarter is to exercise at least 10 hours a week by weightlifting, running, and swimming for the next 10 weeks. To be able to do that, I would need to have positive reinforcement to keep me going, help give me that little push that I need every day. One positive reinforcement that I absolutely love to use is food. After a hard day of working out, I buy myself something nice to eat, like good pizza or burritos. This way I become more likely to work out knowing that I will get something doo to eat after. I like to believe that food is my number 1 enforcer. It will always be there when I need it, it satisfies me tremendously, and overall it is just ridiculously reinforcing. As a result I try to …show more content…
Once I achieve my milestones and my goals, chances are I will look better and feel more confident about myself. This would lead me to eating healthy and acquiring a healthy lifestyle in order to maintain and build my body. I will probably get a tattoo too, to remember this great achievement. I already have a couple tattoos of other significances, and I usually only get them if it means a lot to me. As a result I told myself that if I were to successfully accomplish this goal, I would get a tattoo as a constant reminder of my achievement. Additionally, all the people I have told on my public media accounts will probably be very proud of me when they hear that I reached my goal, and that is definitely something I look forward too. Not only would I make my girlfriend proud, but I would also make my parents and close friends proud as well. I have two older brothers who were both more athletically talented than me. They would always one-up me on everything that I would do, until I took up swimming because they both do not know how to swim. However, now if I finish my goal and I keep going, I could one day surpass them, and I would love to acquire that feeling of becoming better than my
...e completely healthy attempting to avoid my punishment and then there were days where I ultimately caved and failed at eating well. On those days, I followed the rules I set in place and worked out as I said I would that evening. Part of the time my boyfriend would inevitably cause me to falter by cooking a nice fattening meal, but I don’t blame him at all considering it was up to me to make the decision to refrain from eating it. I probably didn’t do as well as I could have around lunch time or dinner but I’m glad at the fact that I did keep away from sweets and snacks throughout the entire week. I was really intrigued with getting good results for this project so I tried my hardest to actually follow the program set. Even if I don’t keep with this change after the project it’s very comforting to know I CAN eat healthy when I want and I CAN workout if I need too.
Like most normal people, I do not particularly enjoy working out. What I do enjoy, however, is binge watching television shows on Netflix. Unfortunately, laying in my bed watching hours of Shameless (the current TV show I am obsessed with) does not burn calories or tone my body. Therefore, my desired behavior is to workout daily for 45 minutes. To help achieve that behavior, I can utilize positive reinforcement, a form of operant conditioning. Positive reinforcement increases the chances of me working out by adding a pleasant stimulus, which is allowing myself to watch an episode of Shameless after I am done with my workout.
This process has not been easy and I have struggled to stay consistent with my healthy eating habits. Keeping my cravings under control has always been a challenge and my love of bread makes things a little harder. I also recognized that I am a stress eater. I had never paid attention to my eating patterns until I begin to keep a journal. This project has definitively helped me monitor and attain a better Healthier lifestyle.
The Big Bang Theory, is a television show which utilizes many psychological tactics. In this specific scene, Sheldon demonstrated multiple conditioning methods on both Penny and Leonard. All of these techniques are what psychology refers to as operant conditioning. In operant conditioning, the experimenter could use positive and negative reinforcement, as well as positive and negative punishment. Out of these four methods, we see Sheldon apply positive and negative reinforcement, along with positive punishment.
In this paper I will be discussing the information I have learned from the article “From Positive Reinforcement to Positive Behaviors”, by Ellen A. Sigler and Shirley Aamidor. The authors stress the importance of positive reinforcement. The belief is that teachers and adults should be rewarding appropriate behaviors and ignoring the inappropriate ones. The authors’ beliefs are expressed by answering the following questions: Why use positive reinforcement?, Are we judging children’s behaviors?, Why do children behave in a certain way?, Do we teach children what to feel?, Does positive reinforcement really work?, and How does positive reinforcement work?. The following work is a summary of "Positive Reinforcement to Positive Behaviors" with my thoughts and reflection of the work in the end.
A Positive Behavior Support System (PBSS) is a school-wide approach to help establish the social culture and behavioral supports that are needed for all of the children in a school to ensure the achievement of both social and academic success. Because school principals play a pivotal role in the success of the school community it is, without a doubt, important that the principal play an important role in developing and implementing a PBSS in their school.
One of the reason’s why I felt my nutrition needed to changes is because nutrition is a huge part of a healthy lifestyle, the way that we eat and what foods we consume can have a huge impact on our everyday lives. Nutrition plays a huge role in multiple facets of a person’s life energy, health, skin, weight, confidence, and more making having a good control on your eating habits extremely important. How we eat over the years and what foods we routinely choose to eat can eventually have a lasting effect on use and what we consider to be most appealing and appetizing at any given moment. Having these craving and routine habits makes eating, diet, and nutrition both a behavior and a lifestyle choice that can be changed over time with help from the theories learned in this class.
Reinforcement is a motivation which depends upon a performance and increases the chance of a performance being frequent. Positive reinforcement can increase the chance of not only necessary behavior but also unwanted behavior. For example, if a student complaints in order to get attention and is successful in getting it, the attention helps as positive reinforcement which increases the possibility that the student will remain to complain. Positive reinforcement is one of the important ideas in behavior inquiry and it is something like rewards, or things usually work to get (Fahimafridi, 2016).
When I walk into Tower Dining, I always glance toward the salad bar and the vegetarian options in the kitchen, but most of the time I pass them up to pile garbage on my plate. I want to eat nutritious food, and every once in awhile I’ll eat a meal centered around nutrition and feel really good about myself, but then that night I’ll retire to my room and eat five cookies and an entire bag of cheesy popcorn. This assignment helped open my eyes to what I was actually eating (and what I wanted to eat when I knew I was being watched), and it did make me want to eat better, at least on the days when I had an assignment. Ultimately, I’ve had enough education to know that eating nutritious food and living a more active lifestyle will give me a longer, healthier life, and I want that because there’s a lot I have to do on this Earth, and I can’t do it all in sixty years. I’m going to need around ninety healthy years, and that’s low balling it. There’s no way I’m going to reach that goal if I continue to eat as I do on a daily basis. The habits I set for myself now will follow me into my adult life, good or bad. I need to make sure that they’re good ones, ones that will create a strong base upon which I can build the rest of my life. Thanks to this assignment, I had to look my priorities dead in the eye and evaluate them. Is the taste of a chicken strip basket really worth all the fat and sodium I’m putting into my body when I
Many people have trouble understanding what a healthy lifestyle is. They often picture endless hours in the gym and being on a crazy liquid diet. Others may think they can spend an hour doing a hard workout and then go eat whatever they want because “they workout”. Once balance is found a healthy lifestyle becomes easy. Understanding the difference between balance and being strict and obsessive about what you eat and when you work out is key. Some have an extremely hard time learning a balance. If they eat junk food, they feel guilty. If they miss a workout, they feel guilty. The truth is, junk food and rest days are great in moderation. Find a balance will help them feel much happier, healthier and even see more physical results. Getting an ideal physique is simply, 80% diet and 20% exercise. The best thing to do is eat healthy, well portioned meals at least five days a week. Then allow one or two days of eating more relaxed foods in moderation without any guilt. If one has a few cheat meals, or in other words, foods that aren’t very healthy, are not going to make them “fat” or gain weight. Especially if they are also working hard in the gym five to six days a week.
Throughout out the course of this nutrition class I have learned more and more about the human body and our nutritional needs. As far as the food pyramid and food groups, I lack a lot of the essential daily consumption numbers when it comes to certain food groups. I have created a list of six different nutritional and physical goals that I have set for myself to fulfill within the next 6 months. Nutritionally I plan on consuming the recommended daily amount of water, eating breakfast more consistently with a variety, and cutting down on snacking. Physically I plan on running 2 miles five days out of the week, cycle through weight training, and swimming every other day.
For those who are unfamiliar with me and my successes, you might wonder why you should listen to me. What do I know about business and how could I possible teach you anything, you might ask yourself? Well, admittedly, I am no financial guru like Dave Ramsey or business tycoon like Richard Branson, but I have found success.
Food is one of the necessities of life in order to survive. Everyone has different views on what to eat and different eating habits. People are so busy in their everyday life that they don’t keep track of what they eat on a daily basis. However, it is important to understand the role of nutrition. Nutrition and exercise are vital to maintain physical health. Proper nutrition is required by our body for energy, growth, maintenance, and repair (Grodner, Roth, & Walkingshw, 2012). Even the brain requires nutrients in order for a person to be intellectually healthy. Along with nutrition, exercise can be controlled by an individual. Exercise helps to strengthen bones and muscles, control weight, improves mental health and mood, reduces risk for cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, and some cancers, and overall increases the chances of living longer (CDC). For this assignment, I kept a food journal by tracking what I ate and the amount of exercise on a daily basis on a food tracker for three weeks. The purpose of that was to analyze my diet and exercise in more depth in order to determine the amount of vitamins, minerals, fat, protein, carbohydrates, and calories I am eating daily. Based on the results, I made some modifications.
I know in the back of my mind that I need to eat healthier and exercise more, but I never actually put my thoughts about it into action. I need to keep myself in the right mindset to accomplish my goals of making myself healthier. I often will get distracted and forget all about what I had planned on doing; I need to focus. I think also having someone else there to push me and make sure I keep at the good habits will keep me from straying away. I feel like I have plenty of time to go and exercise or think “Oh, I can eat something healthy during my next meal.” However, the next thing I know, the day is over and I didn’t keep to my word. It’s a lot harder than I realized, and I’m still trying my best to get better at
While I was tracking my eating for these three days, I began to learn about the benefits of the food that I am eating and the nourishment that they provide for my body. I had never realized how big of a role that the food that I eat plays in my everyday life. Eating has never been something that I really think about it is just something that I do. After I looking at the data of what I eat on Choose My Plate, I realized that my eating habits are far from balanced and that I needed to work on bringing my eating habits to a better balance. While there are a lot of things that I have been doing right, there are also many things that I can work on.