Francine Fukuda Driving Personality Makeover

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Driving Personality Makeover

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Driving Personality Makeover
Creating a Driving Personality
Application to Psychology
Information
Evaluation

What is the Driving Personality Makeover

Two teenagers died this weekend, after a car crash in Hawaii Kai. The teenagers were passengers of a car driven by another teenager. The driver of the car was not intoxicated. The driver was speeding and talking with his friend. The accident was a really bad accident. The driver should not have been speeding. The driver of the car forgot the strength of the car. His bad habits as a driver got his friends killed. A Driving Personality Makeover is designed to eliminate a negative behavior that occurs while driving. People who drive may seem like they have spilt personalities while they drive. They may be one way one day and very different another day. The driver can be the sweetest nicest person but once they are behind the wheel they are loud, rude and terrible. Also there are other behaviors or habits that people feel that bad when they are driving.

According to Bruce Nakada from G3, speed is a bad habit that should be controlled. Everyone speeds. Well, mostly everyone speeds. What is speeding you ask? According to Audy from G3, "speeding is exceeding the posted speed limit." This Driving Personality Makeover was created for everyone that drives. Can you honestly say that you have never gotten mad or upset while driving? Everyone has gotten mad while driving. Can you say that you never speed? One mile over the speed limit is speeding. There are many reasons why people speed. According to Berna Collado of Genereation 2, she feels that she is "pressured" to speed. People that are tailing you tend to cause you to speed. You want to get out of their way so you drive faster. There are many other reasons why people speed. People speed because for the adrenaline rush that get out of it.

This makeover was designed to help you get rid of the negative behaviors that arise while driving. I agree that everyone should do this makeover. It may be better for everyone. There may be less accidents. We should do this makeover because people abuse cars and they take the strength of the car for granted. I would take this makeover because I speed a lot and I tend to forget that the car is not a toy. I am a terrible driver. I race, tail people, and I cut people off on the freeway. I am so lucky that I did not get into accident.

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Creating a Driving Personality Makeover

To create the Driving Personality Makeover, you choose a negative behavior that you would like to observe, take notes and try to think of a way to make that change. The principle steps to follow is :
1) Think of a negative behavior that you would like to change.
2) Test your negative behavior and make observations.
3) Try to change the behavior that you want.
4) Think of a plan that will help you change the behavior.
There are two major stages to the Driving Personality Makeover. According to Dr. James stage one is becoming a reformed driver. The second stage is becoming a facilitative driver.

Application to Psychology

The Driving Personality Makeover can be applied to psychology because it looks at self-witnessing. Self-witnessing is taking a look at yourself objectively. The Driving Personality Makeover requires you to look at your driving habits objectively. You need to look at the way you drive and try to look at all the bad habits that you do. Then you need to try to change the bad driving habits. Self-witnessing is important to the Driving Personality Makeover because you could analysize what your thoughts are when they came up. When those thoughts arise you can analysize them and figure out what made you feel that way.

Getting the Information about the Driving Personality Makeover

I think the other generations did a good job on their description of the Driving Personality Makeover. I feel that with the information that I gathered. I would be able to make a Personality Makeover that could enhance my driving. I think that I would show a lot of resistance to the Makeover plan. Resistance, according to I think that a lot of people would show resistance to the Makeover plan. A lot of people that I know think that they are the best drivers in the world. All my friends that race their cars from Campbell industrial Park to town on Saturday nights think they are Indy 500 racers. They feel that they are the best on the island. They haven't crashed their cars or lost a race yet. I agree that when they are racing they are good drivers. But when they are driving they are terrible drivers. They are careful that they do not cause an accident but they are very uncool drivers. They do not know how to drive and be courteous to their fellow drivers. They would never try to attempt the Driving Personality Makeover.

Evaluation

The Generational Curriculum, what is that? This is a question that I would have asked anyone about a week ago. I knew nothing of this program. I did not know what the Internet was. I think that this program is good because you learn as you go on. I think that reading the experiences of the other generations is a good idea. It tells us what to expect and that we are not alone. There were other people out there that is struggling just as much as we are. Reading the other generation's papers is like encouragement to the future generation. There are advantages and disadvantages to this type of teaching. The advantages is the experience in computers and finding other people's research. The disadvantage would be some students may not have computers and will have harder times trying to do the assignment. I think that this is a good way to have high school students learn how to use computers. It is unfortunate that the high schools may not have the computers for the students to learn on. This type of teaching can be considered the group learning type. The students will sit at the computers and if they do not understand they may ask their friends to help them. This may teach the students to learn to work together. I think that this is a great way to get the students involved in the computers. If they know that their friends are there to help them, they may not be as afraid to use the computers. I know I was afraid to use the computers. In the future, the generational curriculum may be a lot bigger. I think the computer people will find a way that you will be able to link up to other schools. The schools on the mainland may be accessible to Hawaii people. I do not know much about computers so I do not know what else changes could be done to the generational curriculum. I was amazed with the Internet. I am amazed with all the information that you can obtain from the computers.