Human behavior is learned, plus all behaviors can be unlearned and new behaviors learned in its place. Behaviorist believe that the only things that are worth studying are things that we can see and observe. The research-based model for social and cognitive approaches specifies how an individual’s implicit theories direct them towards particular and specific goals and how these goals set up the different patterns. This shows an example of how each feature (cognitive, affective, and behavioral) of the adaptive and maladaptive patterns can be seen to follow directly from different goals.

I am twenty two years old, over the last seven years of my life I have developed a nasty habit of smoking cigarettes. I have realized the fact that I am a true smoker when I started working at the age of sixteen, this only helped me develop my habit even worse when I started stressing about work at such an early age. I usually don’t like to point fingers and play the blame game over my own habits but I did have important role models in my life that influenced me on smoking cigarettes. These role models just so happen to be my two older brothers and both of my parents. It is really not their fault for my habit because every individual in life makes their own decisions. Not only my immediate family smokes but also my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. I would have to say this habit of smoking cigarettes has been a huge habit for my whole family tree, or at least since the early nineteen hundreds. I would also have to say that my two older brothers were my biggest influences on me developing the habit of smoking. I have tried several times to quit smoking but the urge to smoke a cigarette gets the best of me simply because I look at a cigarette as a stress reliever, or basically blowing off some steam. I continue to smoke because not smoking helps me create ideas