Welcome to Report 1
- I was looking through the Generational Curriculum trying to find
things about traffic
psychology. I found that Aaron Takahasi thinks
that traffic psychology is, "The study of behavior in any kind of traffic including automobiles,
pedestrians, airplanes, etc.". Jae Isa
defines it as, "a means to decrease traffic accidents and fatalities as well as improving the self.
Finally I found Alan
Furukawa's report in which
he stated that traffic psychology, "allows us to reflect on our driving persona by opening up our
awareness".
- Personally I liked all of their definitions and the perspectives they
embodied. Jae looks at traffic
psychology as a tool to help people, Aaron sees traffic psychology as a scientific study of behavior
and Alan views traffic psychology as personally empowering. I think that they're all right. Traffic
psychology is all of these things and more.
- Traffic Psychology deals with the affective, cognative, and
sensory-motor aspects of people in the context of the everyday yet often
maddening occurance of driving, dealing with traffic, and dealing with
others. By identifing the affective feelings that cause cognative
thoughts , traffic psychology allows us to understand our resulting actions
and gives us a productive, effective and reliable way of modifing our
behavior. This is because traffic psychology examines the fundamental
origins of our actions in a subjective manner and this allows for precise
evaluation of complex behavior.
- Traffic Psychology can then be defined as tool, which through
subjective analysis, functions to increase the Quality of peoples lives
through consise and subjective behavior observance, identification , and
modification.
- Traffic psychology is a
specific aspect of psychology
that forces us to deal with ourselves by studying behavior and interaction in the controlled
environment of public road ways. By focusing changes in this environment and their feasibility
and solvency we are forced through the context to deal with ourselves. This is probably my
favorite aspect of traffic psychology; it's all about yourself. This is why traffic psychology is
needed. Every one needs help because none of us is just quite perfect (especially when it comes
to driving). Traffic psychology thus presents a door through which we can cognitively enter and
modify our very essence and achieve a higher quality of living.
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