Parenting Styles Paper

Psychology is a very important part of our everyday lives, even without us knowing it. We use psychology every day and it affects everybody differently and different parts of psychology are seen in everybody’s life. Once you think about it, you will see that psychology affects you in so many ways throughout your life. Which is very important to know and understand as it can help you understand more about yourself and the world around you. There are, however, a few psychology concepts that relate to my life more than most. One of the biggest psychology concepts I deal with every day is parenting styles. Since I still live with my mother and see my father, I encounter different parenting styles. There are three different parenting styles

Today in psychology there are 5 main factors in a person’s personality, those 5 factors are called The Big Five. The 5 factors that make up this model of personality are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Openness is a person’s willingness to try new things and new experiences. Conscientiousness is a person’s organization and motivation. Extraversion is split into two types extroverts are outgoing and social while introverts are more solitary and do not like being the center of attention. Agreeableness is the basic emotional style of a person like if they are easy going and friendly or grumpy and rude. While Neuroticism is a person’s emotional stability. These 5 different factors of personality affect me every day as I interact with all 5 factors every day. It is very important to me to know how to handle somebody and by being able to know the signs of their personality when I talk to them I can interact easier with more people. Such as when I had a teammate that was shy and when you did talk to him he was very rude and grumpy. Knowing more about the big 5 would have helped me to realize that is his personality and that I would have to get around his personality and not stress about his

Operant conditioning is how we learn voluntary responses. There are many parts to operant conditioning but it is mostly focused on reinforcement and punishment. There are many types of reinforcement and punishment.There is also many different ways to apply that to our lives. In my life using operant conditioning for behavior modification is the most relatable. I used behavior modification to change my unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one last year. I used all parts of operant conditioning by selecting a target behavior for myself around the house and throughout the day. Then I choose how I would reinforce the target behavior which I did so by not working out on weekends if I did enough work all week. However, if I missed a day during the week or did not try hard enough I would force myself to go on the weekends. This punishment made me want to work as hard as I could in the gym all week and not slack off so I could have a fun weekend. This plan and how I managed it is uses the basic concepts of operant conditioning and behavior