The goal of this report is to present a clear definition of what I think a Driving Personality Make-Over is. This report will cite three examples of driving personality make-overs done by students within the Generational Curriculum. And finally, this report will identify at least two other psychological concepts that relate to how a driving personality make-over operates to create change.

Michelle Alonzo's Driving Peronality Make-Over Plan was the beggining of my search for the definition of a Driving Personality Make-Over. From what I understand of Michelle's plan, the first step is simple observation. Although her page is setup giving a general description of the driving behaviors she wishes to change, the only way she could have identified these adverse driving behaviors was to have previously observed herself driving. When Michelle begins actual observations of her driving behavior, she focuses on specifically on her behaviors when someone cuts in front of her without signalling and/or without thanking her after they merge. It was interesting to see how Michelle included her emotional states while observing her own driving behaviors. Michelle points out a specific instance in which she feels "totally in love" with her boyfriend and drives without any negative thoughts, feelings, or actions. Michelle then goes on to identify that another facet of a Driving Personality Make-Over is resistance to change. Again it is interesting to see that Michelle is able to view her resistance to change rather objectively, giving as a reason the fact that she has had, "...enough behavioral classes to understand...". This facet of the make-over is very important in the simple fact that if a driver is resistant to change, all the self- observations done will be totally useless. And once this resistance is identified, behavior modification can then begin. Michelle formed a specific technique for curbing her swearing tendencies while driving. She admits to reverting back to her "old" self from time to time, but ultimately, she feels that she is a made-over driver.

In Donna Handoe's Report # 3, she specifically states what exact aberrant behavior she is attempting to change. It seems as if a Driving Personality Make-Over works best when targeting specific personality behaviors. Instead of trying to change a driver's overall driving behavior, a make-over attempts to alter smaller, more specific behaviors. Like Michelle, Donna states in a description of her make-over, she starts her make-over by making self observations of her driving behaviors, specifically when she swears or curses (the targeted aberrant behavior). Then she states that she will attempt to replace this negative behavior with a more positive one. Donna then goes on to say that she will continue to monitor herself and alter her behavior modification plan if necessary. One thing which bothers me about this plan is that there seems to be little if any motivation for Donna to change her behaviors. She does not explicitly mention any type of motivation or reinforcement that she will use to maintain her more positive, modified behaviors. It is a common principle in the field of Psychology that when changing a behavior, in order for that modified behavior to take hold in the person's perosnality, some type of reinforcement in needed else this new behavior may be lost. Perhaps Donna is self- actualized enough to use this change in behavior as a reinforcement in itself, but if she were, she wouldn't need to change her driving personality in the first place.

Several interesting points were made in Bruce Nakada's Report # 3. Like all the other Driving Peronality Make-Overs I've come to see, Bruce does start out by observing himself while driving. But unlike other driving personality make-overs I've seen, Bruce simply states that he has no idea what behavior he should change. There fore his self-observations become important not only to this make-over, but in discovering himself as a driver. After Bruce's self observations, he comes to realiz ta seeding is his one major problem. But then Bruce goes on to explain, in the section titled "My Reasons For Change", 5 reasons why he should change his speeding behavior. This seems to act as the reinforcement ones needs to facilitate the modification of a specific behavior. Bruce goes on to identify the main problem in his, and all driving personality make-overs, specifically one's resistance to change. One point that seemed to influence this make-over greatly was the type of music that Bruce listened to while driving. He realized in his modification plan that he could not change his speeding behavior by going "cold turkey". He gradually modified his negative thoughts, feelings and actions, using music to aid in his attempts at slowing down. Bruce's make-over seems to be very well rounded taking into account factors such as what to use for reinforcement, motivational aids (music), and realization of his own faulty behaviors. Whether this make-over was successful or not is overshadowed by the fact that by doing this make-over, Bruce learned more about himself and his driving habits than he ever did before.