Psych
409a:
Dealing
with Stress, Aggression, and Pressure in the Vehicle
By: Justin Koito
Instructions for this activity are found at:
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy25/g25-oral1.htm
Instructor: Dr. Leon James
Peter Rothe, Editor (2002).
Driving Lessons: Exploring Systems That Make Traffic Safer. (
I. Driver’s Self-Witnessing
A. Recording what you are thinking-aloud to study problem solving
B. Demonstrates affective and cognitive self
C. Useful for planning personality
D. Important because it provides information for government agencies to measure driving in society
II. Driver’s Threefold Self
A. Affective: having an internal conversation with yourself
B. Cognitive: your reasoning in a driving situation
C. Sensorimotor: your actions that you decide to do when driving
III. Mental Health of Drivers
A. We all have the ability in us to explode when angered from driving
B. Negative Emotions (extremes)
a) Physiological Reactions
b) Emotional Reactions
c) Irrational Thought Sequence
IV. Taxonomy
A. Classifies driver into a certain category
B. Reveals the behavior patterns of each individual driver
C. May help to even restructure a persons driving personality
D. Three Levels of Driving Behavior
a) Level 1: Proficiencies
b) Level 2: Safety
c) Level 3: Responsibility
E. Three Step Program
a) Acknowledge that you have a problem
b) Witness your actions to that problem
c) Modify yourself to fix the problem
V. Driving Psychology
A. Consists of not only driving psychology, but other psychologies such as social, developmental, health, applied, clinical, etc.
B. Only people who want to be helped can be helped
VI. Socio-culture Methods to Help Oneself and Others
A. Practice Self-Witnessing
B. Teach the application of self modifying techniques
C. Learn the 3 Step Program
D. Keep an entry log of your daily driving
E. Have support from friends and other people
F. Promote Quality Driving Circles (QDC) or similar groups
G. Increase other’s awareness of driving in society
H. Gather data to help analysts further understand driving psychology
I. Support organizations that help driving problems
J. Provide access to information for the public
Related Links
1. Driver’s Mental Health and Testimony: http://www.drdriving.org/articles/testimony.htm
- I chose this website because it reveals in different people’s account of
their road rage. While describing their
rage, they displayed that they had a mental health of extreme physiological
effects.
2. Driving Psychology: http://www.addictionrecov.org/paradigm/P_PR_W98/James.html
- This article seemed appropriate because it displays the very basics of
driving psychology. It talks about the
QDC and other programs to help with road rage.
In those classes they teach you how to deal with the rage. It also describes symptoms of road rage so
that you know if you do have road rage.
3. Three Step Program: http://www.drdriving.org/articles/three_step.htm
- This was important in the reading so that people know how to deal with their
road rage. The article talks about the
three step program and how you can benefit from each of the stages. It even says that there is a test kit to find
out what kind of driver you really are.
My Home page:
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leon/409af2006/koito/koito-home.htm
Class Home Page:
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy25/classhome-g25.htm