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Daniel Bridgmon PSY-211 Lifespan Development Melissa Collins March 19, 2023

One behavior I have learned from living in the southern United States from a young age is “What you should do in case of a tornado warning for your county” The Stimulus would be the warning/alert revived from a weather radio, tv, or outdoor air raid type sirens because a tornado has been spotted or the weather radar is showing a rotating storm. The response would be grabbing your pets, going to the most inferior room/lowest room in your home away from windows/doors, and putting on a helmet until the warning is over for the area. This is an actual threat, so I am definitely aware of the behavior and the benefits of what I do. Being that we live in an area of the United States that has tornados and severe weather year-round but significantly in the springtime we always weather aware for the most part. I would say in this case it would be a positive behavior that was reinforced on April 27, 2011. On that day 62 tornadoes went through the state of Alabama and 240 people died. (Morgan, 2022) I was one of the people living in Tuscaloosa, AL the day that the F- 4 tornado went through two streets over from where I was living. I went to the bottom area and protected my head in my bathtub. I survived but my house and car did not. The only comparable thing to how the city looked after the tornado was what I’d imagine a bomb going off would look like. Others weren’t as lucky but having been trained since I was a small child, our local weatherman James Spann taught us to “respect the polygon” when you are inside that area. (Morgan, 2022) Without this conditioned behavior I might have died instead of telling my story. One behavior I have changed in response to external stimuli is being utterly terrified of storms. For a long time, I had a panic attack from PTSD after that tornado. Seeing the destruction and devastation first really set me into a toxic relationship with storms. I was

aware the behavior was a response to the stimuli, and it was indeed a negative behavior that I had learned. It is a behavior I have learned ways to cope with now. I went to therapy for a long time, desensitized myself to storms, and started medication for when we are experiencing extreme weather for anxiety. I think the first behavior would be a classical conditioning response. For this example, some of the features that helped me identify it are, I receive the stimuli of the warning and I go to my safe space leading to my positive reinforcement of not dying. This type of conditioning is important for anyone because it’s something that can be taught at any age and it’s incredibly important to understand what you should and shouldn’t do in case of severe weather. References Morgan, L. (2022, April 27). 18 hours of horror: A look back at the tornadoes of April 27, 2011. Al. https://www.al.com/news/2022/04/18-hours-of-horror-a-look-back-at- the-tornadoes-of-april-27-2011.html?outputType=amp

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