Introduce+changing+habits+project

Now, take your habit and do some role-playing with it. Look at your notes/book to understand what the following terms mean. How would a psychologist from each of these perspectives explain the cause of your habit? How would they treat your habit; help you stop the habit or acquire it?
 * Why the Heck Do I Do That? ** (modified from **// Rob McEntarffer, Southeast High School, Lincoln, NE) //** Think of a habit you would like to change. It can be a “bad” habit you want to get rid of, or a “good” habit you want to acquire. Write a few sentences in your notes about the habit. What is it? Why do you want to get rid of it or acquire it? What causes the habit?


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 * Psychoanalytical: **

Habit Journal: For the next week, please try to change your habit. Use the behavioral perspective and intervention you will design in class. Please keep a journal about how your habit breaking is going. Write something every day; whether you managed to go without your habit, whether you forgot or gave into temptation, whether you managed to keep up your habit, etc. Basically, how is your intervention working? How does the psychological perspective you chose apply to your current situation with your habit. (Note: you can also use this journal to write about whatever comes to mind during this week. Feel free to "vent")

You must use describe the psychological principles that you used OR should have used during this task in your report. You will turn in your journal entries (you must have 7 total entries, one for each day of the week), and your final report of your findings indicating whether you were successful in breaking your bad habit OR starting a good habit.

**Terms/Concepts you should use:** **classical conditioning** **stimulus** **response** **unconditioned stimulus** **unconditioned response** **conditioned stimulus** **conditioned response** **acquisition** **extinction** **taste aversion** **operant conditioning** **reinforcement** **punishment** **positive reinforcement** **negative reinforcement** **primary reinforcement** **secondary reinforcement** **shaping** **discrimination** **continuous reinforcement** **partial reinforcement schedule** **fixed interval schedule** **variable interval schedule** **fixed ratio schedule** **variable ratio schedule** **latent learning** **the law of effect** **the role of biology** **observational learning**