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Behavior Modification Exercise So on a typical day I work out for about and hour and a half, eat pretty well and get a decent amount of sleep. However I don't exactly hydrate myself how I should. I typically drink any where from 44-80 ounces of soda a day. I know right, not too healthy. So for this week I decided to try to cut out soda. For each day I was able to go without drinking a soda, I would put 5 dollars towards a new video game and everyday I drank a soda I would remove 5 dollars. My Week/ Exercise Day 1 Alright so day one was a normal day I went to class and then my typical 11am workout. Afterwards I was pretty parched so I ran over to the pod and got myself a soda. Obviously I failed here, I forgot about the experiment but as soon as I took a few sips I realized what I had done and threw it away. The rest of the day went pretty smooth and I made sure there were no more slip ups. So I wasn't perfect for the day but seeing that I showed restraint and threw...

Learning/ Classical Conditioning Alright, so this week in my psychology class were learning about well "Learning". but the tricky thing is the learning we were talking about is not the kind that happens in any ordinary classroom. We learned how a psychologist would define learning. This learning is not taught by an individual but by everyday events that influence our future behavior. This learning happens when we notice them around us and relate them to others or relate a certain action to a consequence. Through this process of learning we become conditioned to react the same way. Its funny humans are not the only ones who have the capacity to learn and be conditioned. In the early 1900's, a Russian psychologist by the name of Ivan Pavlov made an accident discovery during an experiment where he was working with dogs. In this experiment Pavlov and his assistant had a few dogs harnessed up and they would then bring these dogs food. The intended experiment was to bring t...