How Habits Are Formed: Psychology and Gender Roles - Social Guidance Film (1954)

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Habits are routines of behavior that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously, without one being conscious about them. Habitual behavior often goes unnoticed in persons exhibiting it, because a person does not need to engage in self-analysis when undertaking routine tasks. Habituation is an extremely simple form of learning, in which an organism, after a period of exposure to a stimulus, stops responding to that stimulus in varied manners. Habits are sometimes compulsory.

Habit formation is the process by which a behavior becomes habitual. As behaviors are repeated in a consistent context, there is an incremental increase in the link between the context and the action. This increases the automaticity of the behavior in that context. Features of an automatic behavior are all or some of: efficiency, lack of awareness, unintentionality, uncontrollability.

Habit formation is modelled as an increase in automaticity with number of repetitions up to an asymptote.

The habit--goal interface is constrained by the particular manner in which habits are learned and represented in memory. Specifically, the associative learning underlying habits is characterized by the slow, incremental accrual of information over time in procedural memory. Habits can either benefit or hurt the goals a person sets for themselves.

Goals guide habits most fundamentally by providing the initial outcome-oriented impetus for response repetition. In this sense, habits often are a vestige of past goal pursuit.

A bad habit is a negative behavior pattern. Common examples include: procrastination, fidgeting, overspending, nail-biting.

A key factor in distinguishing a bad habit from an addiction or mental disease is the element of willpower. If a person still seems to have control over the behavior then it is just a habit. Good intentions are able to override the negative effect of bad habits but their effect seems to be independent and additive—the bad habits remain but are subdued rather than cancelled.

According to author Bill Borcherdt, the best time to correct a bad habit is immediately, before it becomes established. So, bad habits are best prevented from developing in childhood.

There are many techniques for removing bad habits once they have become established. One example is withdrawal of reinforcers—identifying and removing the factors which trigger the habit and encourage its persistence. The basal ganglia appears to remember the context that triggers a habit, meaning they can be revived if triggers reappear.

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[Gamble2185]

helen sucks. :)

[01bdbark]

helen is a future stepford wife.

[MagicByStarlight]

Wow Barbra. Way to be an imperfect human being. Now, be Helen or die.

[xxSasukattxx]

Helen's life is hardly even a life.

[squeapler]

thankfully, the "hippie" era came along and everybody then went to school for the next decade in unwashed blue jeans and t-shirts.

[FabianWarren]

Psychologically Helen is what we term "sexually dead" - who instead of dealing with her repressed homosexuality places all her emotional needs on her dresses, cleaning her face & all her social time is directed toward having good conversation - which is meaningless to the girls on the softball team. Now Barbara understands that boys don't care how she looks or what she wears & aren't interested in her mind. Barbara knows, boys want sex so she makes them pay for it.

[TheWcnncw]

biggest guilt trip ever.....

[Meresortsitar]

I thought this is going to be some crappy old-fashioned male chauvinistic attempt to teach women how to be a perfect submissive housewife but the video actually has a good point.

Not like I'd even want to be such an overorganized perfect girl but it's not a bad idea to have some good habits.

[psychd]

makes me want to brush my hair and clean my room!

[altosax1st]

I hate my alarm clock