Learned Habits

These past few weeks have been interesting to read about and listen to lectures in class because all the stuff we are learning about is relevant to our lives outside of school. This week, I learned about how habits and unconditioned responses are formed. The generic overview about being used to something at first, but then a new stimulus comes into the picture and the original idea you had about something will change, and you now have new feelings towards that "object or situation." A certain example for me would be smelling gases or exhaust fumes. Before I would never really worry about smelling gas, but then when I did smell it once and became sick I really didn't want to smell it anymore. So now when I walk past a car and smell its fumes, especially in winter, I scrunch my nose and hold my breath until I'm in the car, or away from the fumes. Just a little habit I have.