Psychology Assignment: A Self Reflection Essay on Behavioural Theories

This self-reflection essay explores personal experiences through the lens of psychological theories. The essay begins with an introduction to self-reflection and then delves into the author's experiences, including a childhood incident involving fear and a later experience of grief. The main body of the essay analyzes these experiences using behavioural theory and the James-Lange theory, examining how emotions like fear and grief manifest and influence behaviour. The author reflects on the physiological responses associated with fear and the emotional impact of loss, highlighting the role of environmental factors and personal development. The essay concludes with a summary of the insights gained from the reflection, emphasizing the importance of understanding emotional reactions and their influence on personal growth. The essay references academic journals to support the analysis.

SELF REFLECTION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Behavioural Theory ....................................................................................................................3
James-lange theory: -...................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Self reflection refer to all the experience a person tell or reflect which happened in the past and
that person shares. The reflection writing will explain the experiences and the incident which
happened in the past.
MAIN BODY
Behavioural Theory
When I was of 15 year of age I went to the playground in my home town and after playing the
game when I was coming home back after my football game with my friends, I was tired and
was sweating due to the humid environment. It was late around 7:30 in the evening. I used to be
like a scarred child and grown in such a way that I used to feel scared of things. The nature and
nurture in the family was making me scared of things. After the game I was crossing the ground,
and I was alone on a road and suddenly I felt that somebody is following me and it scared me in
that situation (Park and et.al. 2017). it is because of the behavious I used to have, There was a
dog who was growling and I got a physiological arousal which was increased in my heart rates
rapidly and then I felt scared as I was alone in the road my emotions was the fear I felt at that
situation. I was not aware that the dog was knot to the pole, and I was safe but the emotion
reaction was of fear and after realizing that the dog is knot to the pole I get relaxed and realize
that it is just the reaction of heart and brain which make me feel that I was not safe. So realize
that day that it is just an emotion of fear which make me felt like that on that day and the
environment which showed that it is a scary situation.
James-lange theory: -
I was close to my grandfather, he was the closest person to me and when I was 18 year old. As a
person who gets scarred of litile things it is too hard for me to loose the love one. I was going to
school one day and in morning I played as lot with my grandfather, when I came back to home
after my school I get to know that he is dead(Arvanitopoulos, Achanta & Susstrunk, 2017). I was
shattered with the pain and it took me a lot of time to understand the situation, and I was so much
in pain that I have not had food for several days. Then my mother told me that its part of life and
everyone have to go one day and it will remain the same ad we need to understand that its just
the time which need to be changed. That thing boost me up in such a way that I was able to

develop a good focus in life and I have lots of goals which I need to achieve and it make me a
dedicated person.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded that the emotion and reactions which are depended on the situation a person is
feeling, it is the fear of emotion which shows the effect and it is concluded that situation and
reaction can help you in development if they are done in the right way.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Arvanitopoulos, N., Achanta, R., & Susstrunk, S. (2017). Single image reflection suppression.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 4498-
4506).
Park and et.al. (2017). Dynamic reflection phase and polarization control in metasurfaces. Nano
letters. 17(1). 407-413.
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