relating social theories to changes in behavior you’ve made in your life.

After my father had a heart attack 2 years ago I really got in to working out. it’s a shame that he had to have a heart attack for me to see that you can not take your body for granted. Before my fathers heart attack I was in to working out and thought I was doing my part healthy wise in the gym , after his heart attack I wanted to read up on certain things and know what does what and why, I do not know everything there is but I read things that interest me about health. Why does this apply to a class blog , well from the email Professor Lambert sent out it is in regards to “relating social theories to changes in behavior you’ve made in your life. Identify different stages and influencing factors. The one theory that made the most sense to me was Information processing paradigm. there are 3 main steps that people need to take to adapt to behavior.

Attention
Comprehension
Acceptance

These 3 steps are broken down in to 12 steps these steps have to be enforced step by step or this theory will fail, I’m going to try and explain this to the best of my abilities my writing isn’t the best thing in the world.

1. Exposure – to the message , the message being my father had a heart attack ( you see it)
2. Attention – how does it differ, its my father so I’m affected by it ( you read in to it)
3. Likeability – to be compelled , to prevent this from happening to me
4. Comprehension – what is it about . Learning what I have to do what skills will I need
5. Skill acquisition – consequence and learning about what’s involved (eating right and exercising)
6. Yielding- accepting the message , its like an agreement on what is going to happen for prevention
7. Memory storage – keeping the memory and skill, having inspiration kind of like hanging a picture on your wall for your ideal goal.
8. Info search and retrieval – some remember but need more information
9. Decision – taking action for me its going to the gym and cooking healthy foods
10. Performance- adapting to the behavior, for me its discipline and structure for advancement
11. Reinforcement – being positive and getting patted on the back , monitoring all the work up to this point with a weight chart or even with a personal trainer
12. Post behavior consolidation – taking all the info and making it part of your life.