Conditioning and Personality

As I was reading classmates posts, I found the posts about operant conditioning to be interesting. For myself, I think of operant conditioning to be a response to something of a reward system. I found Amber’s post regarding her ticket for speeding one that anyone could easily connect to. I was in a car accident and every time I get to the same intersection I look before I turn left. As a matter of fact, I look in my left mirror and over my shoulder even when I turn left at an intersection because I hit a driver who went over the double yellow to pass me on the left to avoid rear ending me and 3 cars behind me. I find it interesting to see how once we experience something so vivid, we immediately change our actions to prevent it from happening again. I’ve never fully thought about the process of the different ways we learn as humans until now, even though I’ve taken a few psychology courses already. I also really find it interesting how different people view the stages of development differently. For myself, I can connect it in terminology of the voice (since it’s currently what I’m thinking about). My choral professor was talking about how men and women are different and his opinions may differ from my voice professors for where women’s head voice and whistle line up compared to if men have a true head voice or falsetto. Just like the voice, human personality is so complex and there are many different ways to learn from other’s ideas.