Report 2:
My Understanding of Driving Psychology
By Justin Golder
Instructions for this report are at:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy22/409a-g22-report2.htm
I am answering Questions 1, 4, 7, 5. and 3.
The Question that I am answering is Question
1:
(a) Consider Tables 1, 2, 3, and 4 in the
Lecture Notes, in the Section on Driving Psychology Theory and Charts at www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy22/409a-g22-lecture-notes.htm#Charts
Consult the article from which the Tables were taken. (b) Using your own words,
describe the three behavioral domains and levels of a driver (nine cells). (c)
Illustrate each domain with your own driving behavior skills and errors, or
that of another driver you know well, or a driver in a particular movie. (d)
Make up a "driving personality makeover" plan for yourself (or
another driver you know well), relating specifically to negative thoughts
you have about other road users. (e) Discuss the problems you anticipate in
carrying out such a plan successfully. (f) Any other comments you wish to make.
b) Table 1 discusses the three areas of behavioral domains that
driver’s must be aware of when learning to drive successfully. The first area is the affective behavioral
domain. This domain covers all of the
feelings that one encounters while driving a car. For example when you get angry and yell
because a light changed to red right before you get there this is an example of
a negative affective behavior that you must change in order to become a good
supportive driver. An example of a
positive affective behavior is thinking that people make mistakes and not
perceiving other drivers as hostile.
The second area in the behavioral domain covers the
cognitive portion of driving. The
cognitive domain covers all of your thoughts while driving on the road. For example when you are driving and your
mind is on other things and not on your driving this is an example of a
negative cognitive behavior. You must
make sure that you keep you mind on the task of driving, otherwise mistakes
will happen that could lead to car crashes.
An example of a good cognitive behavior is trying to watch the other
drivers to alert you to possible risks that they might pose. An example of this is watching other drivers
to see whether they use signals when cutting so that you are aware of what they
might do.
The third area in the behavioral domain of driving is the
sensorimotor area. This domain covers
the actual physical movements you make when driving a car. For example if you get angry at another
driver and decide to give him the finger, this is a negative sensorimotor
behavior. This could cause less control
of the car as well as provoke a violent response from the other driver. A good example of a positive sensorimotor
behavior is waving out your back window to thank someone for letting you cut in
or any other nice driving behavior. By
doing something as simple as this you could be making someone else’s day.
There are also three levels of a driver where each of the
three behavioral domains are seen. The
first level is proficiency. The
affective side of proficiency is trying to make sure that you keep your
emotions under control so that you stay calm and make good driving
decisions. Next comes the cognitive
proficiency which means that you are learning about how things work by watching
everything that is going on around you. Finally you have sensorimotor proficiency
which just means that you learn how to incorporate the information that you see
and feel into controlling the car.
The next level of a driver is safety. The affective side of safety is trying to
make sure that you keep yourself out of all sorts of negative situations in
order to avoid heating up your emotions and doing something stupid. After the affective side of safety you come
to the cognitive side. As I said above
you are trying to watch the way others drive so that you learn how to spot
certain types of driving styles that you should think about avoiding. Once you start doing this you will notice
that some people who are speeding will tend to avoid using signals when they
change lanes, once you are able to note these people you will be aware that
they might change lanes at any time so you should be ready. Last is the sensorimotor safety which
encompasses taking what you learned from the affective and cognitive sides and
making the right decisions when faced with problem situations.
The last level of a driver is responsibility. For the affective side of responsibility you
have to realize that you are accountable for all the harm that you inflict on
yourself and other drivers when operating a vehicle. Once you are able to accept this idea, it
will lead you to the cognitive side of responsibility which state that you
should make plans that are more prosocial rather than antisocial. Finally comes the sensorimotor side of responsibility
which determines the quality of your driving no matter what the situation that
you are in. It is a pretty basic idea to
comprehend that when you decide to drive you must know that everything that
happens when you are in control of the care comes under your responsibility and
you should not be driving until you fully accept this.
c) As far as the affective behavior goes while driving I know that
I can get pretty worked up. My friends
are always joking with me saying that I have road rage. After taking this class I realize that I
really do have “road rage” because I do all the wrong things. I know that in one of the classes we were
talking about how stupid it is to yell at traffic lights and yet I find myself
doing this almost daily. I tend to rage
to myself when a driver does something stupid or dangerous and although I never
actually do anything to them I seethe inside for the rest of the car trip.
The cognitive side of my behavior is pretty good because I
am fairly good at paying close attention to my driving as well as the driving
of those around me. I am always on the
lookout for drivers who seem to be driving dangerously and I make an effort to
stay away from them. I can tell when
someone wants to cut and so I make room for them before they signal in order to
decrease the chance that there will be any sort of collision. One problem that I do have is that if I am
very emotional or in a rush I don’t pay attention as well as I should because I
am thinking about other stuff. This has
on occasion caused me to not notice a light changing red. Although I always stop in time, it is still
dangerous and bothersome to realize that I did not notice something so
important.
Last is the sensorimotor side of driving. I feel that I handle my car pretty well in
that I don’t drive fast enough where I am constantly braking and can control my
car by just using the accelerator. However
sometimes because I am so confident in just using my accelerator instead of my
brake I have to brake harder because I tried to just let go of my accelerator
to slow down. This is probably not the
safest thing because one of these times I may not be able to brake hard enough
to stop myself from going into the car in front of me.
d) The first thing that I have to do when deciding to have a driver
make-over is to record the things that I am doing and thinking. I have to keep track of the habits that I
want to change so that I can decide what to do first. After this I will need to take just one of
the habits at a time and work on fixing it.
For example I need to record when and what I say when I get angry when
driving. After I figure out when this
happens I need to concentrate on taking each instant one at a time and work on
recognizing and stopping this behavior before it begins.
e) Some of the problems that I foresee happening is actually
following through with the plan. I have
never really been very good at keeping things going because I tend to lose
interest or forget because I don’t really care.
I also think that I will forget to do these things while I am driving
because I will be thinking of other things at the time. I would like to change some of my bad habits
but I have some real problems with control of my emotions. When I was young I had a very bad temper and
I never really learned to control it.
Now that I am older I am better but it is still something that I don’t
have completely down.
The Question that I am answering is
Question 4:
(a) Select six student reports on driving
psychology from Generation 20 , as listed in the Readings Section of the
Lecture Notes. www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy22/409a-g22-lecture-notes.htm#g20-reports
You must select any two students from Report 1, two different students
from Report 2, and two still different students from Report 3. So there will be
a total of six different students, two students for each report. (b) Summarize
each of the six reports. Be sure you put a link to the report you are referring
to. (c) Add a General Conclusion Section in which you discuss your reactions to
what they did – (i) their ideas, (ii) their method, (iii) their explanations.
(d) What did they gain from doing their reports? (e) How do their ideas
influence what you yourself think about these issues? (e) Any other comments
you wish to make.
b)
Shari’s report 1 covered definitions of the driver
threefold self, self witnessing methodology, road rage, aggressive driving
legislation, the driver’s emotional intelligence, the driver’s emotional spin
cycle, lifelong driver education, theory of driving, and the automatization of
driving behavior.
Jenny Arakaki report 1 at
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409as2004/arakaki/report1.htm
Jenny’s report 1 defined, the driver threefold self,
self-witnessing methodology, road rage, aggressive driving legislation, the
driver’s emotional intelligence, the driver’s emotional spin cycle, newsgroups
for drivers, lifelong driver education, scofflaw, and left lane bandit. According to Jenny newsgroups for drivers is
a forum where drivers can discuss their problems with others. It almost sounds like an online QDC.
Ikue Fukushima report 2 at
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409as2004/fukushima/report2.htm
Ikue’s report 2 started out with an objective self
assessment. Ikue looked at her
boyfriends driving by assessing many different areas which include, fantasies
of retaliation and revenge, high pressure driving and competition, impulsive
and reckless driving, best and worst driving traits according to him, best and
worst driving traits according to passenger, and witnessing emotions thoughts
and actions. Ikue then had a section
where she attempted to modify her boyfriends driving behavior.
Chris Concepcion report 2 at
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409as2004/concep/report%202.htm
Chris’s report 2 was also an objective self assessment in
which he looked at various tests that were found in the Road Rage textbook. The tests that he went through included, your
road rage tendency, your range of hostility, your passive aggressive road rage
tendency, your verbal road rage tendency, are you a rushing maniac, are you an
aggressive competitor, do you support passenger rights in your car, and
positive driving behavior. After this he
came up with a self modification plan.
Jesse Chang report 3 at
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409as2004/chang/report%203.htm
Jesse’s report 3 covered a proposal for life long driver
education. Most of his report is on
chapter 9 from the Road Rage and Aggressive Driving textbook. He discusses,
the risk of teenager drivers, the Driver-Zed program, the three
components of behavior, a lifelong driving curriculum, QDC’s, the Roadrageous
video, and elderly drivers. Jesse then
gives a proposal for a lifelong driver education that covered, birth to 24
months, toddler, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and
elderly.
Jeremy Kubo report 3 at:
http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/409as2004/kubo/report3.htm
Jeremy’s report 3 also discussed the chapter on lifelong
driver education. Some of the topics
that he covered were, teenagers, Driver-Zed, a K-12 curriculum for driving,
QDCs, and a graduated licensing approach.
Jeremy believes that a lifelong driving education should be split into
four parts. The first is infancy through
elementary, followed by intermediate, high school, and post high school. So it seems that what he is saying is that
there should be a driver education course that is set within the standardized
education system.
c) Conclusion
i) I liked
ii)
iii)
Jenny Arakaki report 1
i) Jenny like
ii) Jenny also had a well laid out report with all of her sections
clearly marked in order to make it more readable. I personally liked her definitions section
because of the way that she spaced it, this made it look nicer and more
pleasing to look at.
iii) Jenny’s explanations where well thought out and were easy to
understand. I liked her autobiographical
section because she put the information that she learned about driving
psychology and used it in relation to herself.
This can also be useful for others wanting to change because they may
look at things about themselves that they never realized that they were
doing.
Ikue Fukushima report 2
i) I enjoyed reading
ii)
iii)
Chris Concepcion report 2
i) Chris’ report 2 also did a report on self modification of
unwanted driving behavior. However he
took his ideas from the various tests that you can get out of the road rage
text. I didn’t find his ideas as thorough
as
ii.) Chris’ report was pretty well laid out, but I think that I
preferred
iii) Chris did a good job on explaining what it was that he was doing
and made sure to take us through each step.
He put a lot of the things that he was feeling when doing this which I
thought was a good idea because it will give you an idea of what you might do
if you end up feeling the same way in these situations.
Jesse Chang report 3
i) Jesse’s report 3 had a lot of good ideas
that I am sure she picked up from class.
She supported these with some ideas from the text as well as taking some
ideas from the previous generations.
This report mainly covered the ideas from chapter nine and I like how
Jesse came up with a plan for a lifelong driver education.
ii)
Jesse’s report 3 was not as well
laid out as some of the other reports that I have looked at. She did not have that many headings for her
ideas. This gave the report a sort of
boring feel to it. There were many
paragraphs that were long and it just gave a sort of thrown together look to
the report.
iii)
The explanation that Jesse gave for
the report came pretty much straight out of the book. Jesse did take some ideas from previous
generations and came up with a unique plan for driver education at all ages of
life. She also augmented her ideas with
things that they discussed in class to give further information to the readers
of the report.
Jeremy Kubo report 3 at:
i) Jeremy’s report 3, like the previous one,
mainly took most of his ideas from chapter nine from the road rage
textbook. Therefore his ideas were very
similar to Jesse’s. I think that I liked
Jeremy’s idea for a lifelong driver education better than Jesse’s because I
think that Jesse had to many steps whereas Jeremy’s is a little easier to
do.
ii) Jeremy’s report 3 lay out was very
similar to Jesse’s. I thought that some
of the other reports that I had seen were better because it looked nicer
because of the headings and good spacing.
Jeremy’s report kind of ran together with few headings and many
paragraphs.
iii)
I found that Jeremy’s explanations
were well thought out and had ample evidence to back up what he was
saying. Much of his explanations came
from the book so they are probably bound to be pretty accurate. He also used some of what the previous
generations wrote and phased in some of their ideas into his explanations.
d) It seems that all of the students who did these various reports
had a better understanding of driving psychology. They were able to use this and relate it to
their own lives and see where some of the problems they have lie. After doing these reports some of them even
worked on using what they learned to change some bad habits and this is good
because they can use these ideas to change other aspects of their live that
they would like to work on.
e) Actually after reading their reports I was
surprised by how similar their way of thinking was to mine. It seems that after taking this class we all
come away with the same sort of notions.
Of course the reports that I found most enjoyable to read were the self
modification reports. It was interesting
to see how they went about changing their behaviors. I couldn’t see myself doing this because I
don’t think that I have the will to see it through and it was nice to see if it
really worked for them.
The Question that I am answering is
Question 7:
(a) Our textbook Road Rage and Aggressive
Driving has exercises in several chapters. Do the following four exercises:
(i) Exercise on scenario analysis on p. 129; (ii) Exercise on self-assessment
on p.134; (iii) Exercise on identifying assumptions on p. 131; and (iv)
Exercise on negative vs. positive driving on p. 122. (b) What were your
reactions to the exercises? (c) Discuss how these exercises help you to become
more aware of yourself as a driver. (d) Do some of the exercises with another
driver you know. How do they help you understand some principles of driving
psychology mentioned in the book? (e) Any other comments you wish to make.
b) Reaction to Exercises
Exercise on scenario analysis on p. 129
This
exercise was interesting to me because I think I have actually said every
single one of those phrases at least once.
For some of them I say them on a daily basis. After reading some of the remedies on what I
can do to keep from getting caught up in these oppositional symptoms I realize
that it is no wonder I keep feeling this.
I don’t really do any of the remedies which is probably why I am stuck
feeling this way. I realize after doing
this exercise that there are a lot of driving problems that I have to fix.
Some
of the remedies that are down I don’t think that I could really see myself
doing because it seems so weird. For
example making funny animal noises to myself seems a little to out there for me. But on the other hand there are many remedies
that I can see as being very useful that I would like to try implementing in my
driving. For example the remedies for
being overcritical, I find those to be very useful because I tend to be very
overcritical for myself and I think that it causes me to make some decisions
based on this feeling.
Exercise on self-assessment on p.134
After
completing this exercise I realize that things that I saw myself doing were
different than what my passengers thought.
There were some similarities but that was only on the things that were
very obvious to everyone. For example I
realize that I speed and that is one of the things that everyone else said
about me as well. However the things
that others felt I was doing wrong I thought that I was doing them just
fine. It really made me take a look at
how I perceive myself and then try to see how others perceive my driving.
I
guess that it is hard to look at the things that you are doing wrong because
nobody wants to see themselves in a bad way.
However after realizing that my parents and friends don’t see my driving
the same way I do I have to make an effort to change, otherwise I am holding my
passengers hostage as Dr. James would tell me and that is not a good trait for
a driver. It is strange to get used to
the fact that the passenger has rights as well because I always felt that since
they are in my car I am king. But know I
look at myself as more of a dictator who cares about nothing but himself and I
realize now that I need to make more of an effort to make my passengers fell
more comfortable.
Exercise on identifying assumptions on p. 131
After
reading this letter I have to really wonder about some people. He has all the wrong attitudes and he doesn’t
really seem to get what is happening.
However it makes me realize that this is normal for most people because
they don’t really know any better. I am
able to look at this letter and see all of the mistakes that he made and
therefore I am not really very sympathetic towards him. However if I had never taken this course I
might feel that he was justified because as a people, Americans tend to be very
self absorbed and selfish.
I
think that this guy needs to take this course because it would help him see
that he put himself into this position by taking a very aggressive attitude when
he was clearly in the wrong. Of course
you also have to realize that he could have been like this as well because the
alcohol was affecting his judgment which led to his overly aggressive
attitude.
Exercise on negative vs. positive driving on
p. 122
After
completing this exercise I realize that most people would use the negative
driving phrases because that way it puts the blame on the other drivers instead
of themselves. This makes them feel
better about themselves because it is not them that has the problem it is the
other driver. I know this because I am
good at putting the blame on everyone but me and this carries over to every
aspect of my life including my driving.
I would have to admit that I always think using the negative driving
phrases rather than the positive ones.
When I tried to think of positive phrases of my own I couldn’t, but it
was easy to come up with negative ones.
There
are a lot of things about these areas that is nice but I don’t know if they are
really possible. I guess I look at it as
something I can’t control and that is why I don’t change my driving style. It seems so difficult to be able to control
your anger because it comes out so quickly.
There are some of these things that I already do but I can’t say that I
do them all the time. Every once in
awhile I will get angry or feel upset and then I can’t seem to see the positive
side to what happens.
c) As
I mentioned above after taking these exercises I realized that I have a lot of
work to do. After doing the exercises I
found that I had more bad driving habits than I seem to have good ones. Of course this could just be me being
overcritical of myself but it is somewhat troubling. Although these exercises pointed out what I
was doing wrong, they also showed me some ways that I can change these bad
behaviors into better ones. Of course
many of these things can be changed just by fixing my mindset just a little. I have to look at things differently and not
take everything as hostile or aggressive.
Although
it seems like a daunting task I am going to just try to take it little by
little. I think I shall try to take one
of the bad behaviors that these exercises showed me I had and try to use one of
the positive examples that were given in the book. I don’t know how well or how long I will be
able to keep it up but even if it is just for a little while I might be able to
learn something and possibly even change my attitude that this is something
that is almost impossible to do.
d) It
was interesting when I did these exercises with one of my friends because I
found that he had a hard time assessing his own driving because he did not
understand what was right and wrong. Of
course he understood when he was breaking the law but he did not see the
affective side of his driving. It was
funny because when he saw some of the negative things he asked me why this was
the wrong way to handle this situation.
It just shows that we have been programmed to view things in a certain
way and because we don’t have any formal training such as this psych class we
can’t even begin to change the way that we drive.
The Question that I am answering is
Question 5:
(a) Consider Table 5 in the Lecture Notes, in
the Section on Driving Psychology Theory and Charts at www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy21/409a-g21-lecture-notes.htm#Charts
(b) Consult the article from which the Table was taken. (c) Copy and paste the
table into your file. Now delete the examples in each cell and replace them
with your own examples that you make up. (d) Discuss why driving is such a big
problem in all societies and why no effective solutions have yet been found for
them. (e) Discuss the solutions offered by Dr. Leon James (www.DrDriving.org). What likelihood is there that his approach
will be adopted? Explain. (f) Any other comments you wish to make.
c)
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d) Driving
is a problem in all societies because people don’t get the proper training to
really handle a vehicle. When learning
to drive you are taught how to work the car and what the laws are for
driving. However there is more to
driving than that. You need to learn the
proper way to handle your emotions when driving a car because this is a big
factor in many of the cases of road rage.
I also think that another problem is that not enough people are looking
into driving as a problem. Dr. James is a
pioneer in this field but he alone can not change the way that driving is viewed.
I also think that
people aren’t ready to look at the way we drive and change it. For example in
I
had the unique opportunity to live in
e) Dr.
James has come up with many solutions for changing driving behavior. One of the one that I think would be very
useful would be the life long driver education.
Right now the education that is offered is woefully inadequate and this
is why there are continuing to be more car crashes. If they could come up with a way to teach the
right way to drive from and early age then maybe we would not grow up learning
bad driving habits from the adults that make up our environment. However I don’t see this happening right now
because nobody is willing to address the seriousness of this problem and
therefore funding for something like this will probably not be feasible. I mean public schools can’t even get enough
money to keep their music programs alive, so why would they ever think about
using it for traffic safety, something that most people don’t even realize is a
problem.
Dr.
James also came up with a theory about the three fold self of driving. This theory shows that there behavioral areas
that make up a person’s driving. They
are the affective, cognitive and sensorimotor areas. Right now most driver education places teach
you only the sensorimotor area of driving.
This is only one third of what actually is involved when you drive a
car. However I think that people don’t
like change and they want to keep it the way that it is because it would be too
difficult to come up with a whole new curriculum for learning to drive. Unfortunately this attitude gives untrained
new drivers license to get reckless and wild on the highways.
The Question that I am answering is
Question 3:
(a) Discuss these two Web sites: drivers.com vs. drdriving.org
by first describing their overall appearance and purpose. (b) What are their
main differences? Be sure to consider at least these areas: (i) articles (ii)
newsletters (iii) style (iv) probable audience (v) public relations or policy
(vi) advertising (vii) size (vii) ranking (viii) Other sites that link to each.
(c) Any other comments you wish to make.
a) Overall Appearance and Purpose
It
seems that driver.com has a more modern sleek look to the website. However it is really strange because it has
both a driving section and a section on computer drivers which is a weird
combination to have. On the other hand
drdriving.org has a more educational feel to it. Of course its purpose is to educate and teach
people about all aspects of driving behaviors.
Driver.com has a news like feel to it plus it covers all aspects of
driving such as jobs, and actual car companies.
Their purposes are
different from each other. Driver.com
seems to be throwing out every piece of information that deals with driving and
automobiles. It tries to give everything
and anything to all that come to their site.
Drdriving.org’s purpose is to educate people about a problem that they
don’t even realize that we have. Drdriving.org
covers everything about driving a car and the psychology behind controlling a
vehicle.
b) Differences
i) Drivers.com
has a bunch of articles but it seems that they will take just about anything as
long as it has driving or automobile in it.
I don’t know if this is the right way to go about it because some of the
articles will not be understood by the people who come to this site, nor will
they care about them. At drdriving.org
his articles are geared toward one thing, and that is understanding road rage
and driving. What I like about this is
that when you go to his site you know what you want rather than drivers.com
which gives you too much so that it is overwhelming. I also did not like how they did not have a
special tab just for articles like drdriving did.
ii) It
seems that drivers.com has a newsletter which you can signup for whereas drdriving.org
does not have one. I guess that is a
plus for drivers.com, although personally I don’t care about that kind of thing
so it doesn’t really bother me one way or another. However for people who do want that then I
guess that drivers.com is the way to go.
iii) As
I mentioned before the driver.com website as a more modern sleeker look to it
that I am sure is designed to get the attention of my generation more. Drdriving.org on the other hand is what you
would expect out of a website that is created for education. It is a little behind the times as far as
style goes and it looks like it was created by an older person rather than
someone in my generation. It is very
simple but gets its point across, however I think that it could use an upgrade
in order to attract a younger audience.
iv) Drivers.com
seems to be target a younger generation but at the same time their articles and
selection would attract virtually anybody.
I think that drivers.com is like a Wal-Mart in that it has everything
thrown together and hopes to attract as many people as possible. On the other hand, drdriving.org seems to be
more geared towards students and professors as well as those that are very
interested in the topic of road rage. If
drivers.com is a Wal-Mart than drdriving.org would be a specialty store like
CompUSA.
v) Drivers.com
does have a page where they discuss their policy but frankly I found it to be
boring and could barely get through it.
I did not see a policy page on drdriving.org nor did I find a public
relations page.
vi) Drivers.com
has heavy advertising. The ads are all
over their site and I don’t really like that.
If we want ads they should have a link that we can click to see it, but
instead drivers.com has it popping in our face the whole time we are on the
site. In contrast, drdriving.org has
very few ads, one of the few is his book Road Rage and Aggressive Driving. I like how his site is clutter free because
all of those ads just take away the focus of what is really there.
vii) You
know what they say size doesn’t really matter but in this case it does. I would have to say that both sites are very
large. However I think that drivers.com
is larger because it covers more things.
Like I said before they have put everything that has the words driving
and automobile into this site and this makes things become pretty large. On the other hand drdriving.com is no small
thing either, but even though it has a lot of content it is all relevant to the
central theme of road rage and aggressive driving. I think that the content of drdriving.com is
better than the way too large content of drivers.com.
viii) I
would have to say that I would rank drdriving.org higher than drivers.com
because I like how it is more focused on one idea rather than having everything
just thrown together. I found that the
information on drdriving.org was much more useful than anything that I found on
drivers.com. I would therefore have to
recommend drdriving.org.
ix) I
think that both sites had many links that pertained to what they had on their
website. It seemed that drdriving.org
had links that were more useful for me as a student than drivers.com did. However I like the links page that
drdriving.org had better than drivers.com
My Report on the Current Generation
Leanna Bergeron (
Leanna talked about
dream cars and why it is that these cars appeal to us. She said that although we may think that we
want these cars for “regular” reasons, once we are hypnotized we find out that
we really get a sense of freedom, power, and speed. After finding this out advertisers have used
these concepts to try to reach us and make us buy their car. Leanna believes that we have to learn that
the name of the care does not give us a license to drive recklessly.
Jayson Dicho (
Jayson
discussed the pros and cons of red light cameras. He stated that although they were set up to
stop accidents at intersections, they increased the likelihood of creating
rear-end collisions. He also discussed
the economic costs of running these things and he found that in gave us more
money because a police officer was no longer needed to watch these dangerous
intersections. He also stated that this
freed up police officers to be doing other things. Here is an example of ways that we can
improve driving conditions in order to reduce accidents.
Jadine Makinano (
Jadine
discussed the stress that female truck drivers encountered on the job. She gave many causes for stress among female
truck drivers such as, impossible deadlines, disagreements with supervisors,
pressure to outperform the men, as well as gender related issues. I found her
oral to be interesting because you would not normally think of female truck
drivers. This would seem to be an occupation geared more towards men. I could see how it would be rough for a
female to work in that kind of a job.
Advice
to Future Generations
Make sure that you do all the work on
time. Don’t slack off because if you do
the work will pile up and you will find yourself totally stressed out. However if you do the work in a timely manner
this class is very easy to pass. It can get a little tedious but if you stick
it out it will be worth it. Although you
may come to this class because you need it to graduate you should really pay
attention to what Dr. James teaches because it is a fascination subject and it
will surely change the way you think about things.
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