Apr 29, 2005 13:43
Hey everyone,
Well as you can tell I'm very tired...I've been getting very little sleep and it's killing me. All I've been doing is waking up early going to college, then going to work, then coming home and doing homework. I've been studying a lot lately, because I've been getting a lot of tests lately, and unfortunately, I still have more to come. Well I guess I'm surviving, but it's hard keeping up with life. It's really hard trying to do everything you need to do, then do everything you want to do. There's always less time to do what you want to do, but I guess it's part of life. Well, as I crossed the subject of "Shaping" while doing the weekly audit, I spent a lot of time on that subject. Shaping has to do with what elements contribute to "shaping" one's behavior. I read in the psychology book that psychologist B.F. Skinner believed that "internal factors" such as beliefs, and emotions had nothing to do with one's behavior. I strongly disagree with B.F. Skinner, because it is all those "internal factors", beliefs, and emotions that shape one's behavior, because those are the things that are contributed that control one's behavior. For example, if a child is sad it will probably start crying, which is part of a behavior. Plain and simple. Sad is an emotion and crying is a behavior, so being sad controlled the behavior so the child will express it's emotion by crying. Now maybe I might be wrong arguing with a psychologist and all, but this is what I understood. Forgive me if I misunderstood. Well everyone have a good weekend, and for all that are tired...I feel you. Get some rest!