Behavioral_and_Social_Cognitive_Paper

3 Behavior and Social/ Cognitive Sundra D. Daniels PSY 250 August 20, 2012 Randy White Behavior and Social/ Cognitive Greediness, drug addition, alcoholism, gambling, coffee drinking, overeating and biting nails are compulsive habits that many individuals form. According to Clark Hull habits in learning theory simple it is an association between a stimulus and a response. Habits are also learned a little at a time; the habit starts as a thought to an individual’s mind, which lulls the individual to think that they can do it once more for that rouse that feeling once again only to find that they are addicted to having a compulsive habit. A behavioral and ethnic concept which agrees that personality confer about the two original reports in Bandura’s act of observation receiving and self-efficacy have been pulled together with added element under the label “social-cognitive .theory Numerous individuals understand that an unhealthy habit has developed when one continue to do that habit over and over again. Numerous individuals have an uncontrollable shopping disorder. However, many individuals uncontrollable disorders reaction ones everyday lives. Individuals who shop until they cannot shop any longer, and max out ones credit cards frequently have a shopping obsession. These individuals think the more one may shop, the more they will feel better, actually, it makes an individual as a compulsive shopper feel worse after it’s all done. Compulsive shopping is related to other compulsive behaviors and various features like: alcoholism, gambling, and overeating habits. Compulsive shopping can turn out to be an annual, seasonal, nervousness, and isolation one may sense during that period. I am (use to be) a compulsive shopper. I have been a compulsive shopper since I received my first credit card at the age of 19 years old. Whenever I felt lonely, nervous or depressed the first thing that came to my mind was shopping. It was nothing for me to go on a shopping spree and spend five or six hundred dollars on items I really did not need like clothing, shoes, hair products, CD and gifts for friends and family members. At the time I was a student at Mississippi State and worked at the hospital as a nurse aide on the midnight shift and thought I had everything planned if any emergencies should arise. For five years I was able to pay my bills on time and sometimes paid two payments when I had the extra cash. Two years later I receive my second credit card with a credit limit of $ 2500.00. With this second card I thought I was ready for an apartment and new furniture so I decided that I would use this one to pay my rent and utilities and my first card to keep up my fashion and miscellaneous items. I had done well for a year paying my bills on time. By the time I turned age 25 I was in so much debt that I had a nervous breakdown a year later and had to go to therapy for about six. This was the first time my parents knew that I had credit cards. I later took on three jobs to pay off a $20,000 debt which took me approximately five and a half years to pay it off because I was determined not to file bankruptcy. I developed these habits because I felt like a misfit in college and I had no friends so I decided to use my credit cards to buy my friends expensive gifts and just as soon as I started wearing the name brand clothes and the designer shoes is when I caught the eyes of friends that I wanted to be around and the was the rich. At the time I did not know I had to keep this lifestyle up to keep up my friendship with my friends. This became an everyday thing until I had maxed out both of my cards and could not sprinkle them with gifts. This habit formed because I wanted to impress a class of friends that I wanted to be friends with that actually did not want to be friends with me unless I was doing something for them and because I liked the expensive name brand clothes and the designer shoes, jewelry that they could borrow.