week 6 dq

My history on this subject has layers of not fun issues. To answer the question specifically, how much I emulate same sex behavior patterns of my caregivers, “As little as possible, with 3 decades of finding and extincting the worst of the behavior patterns I nurture from them (Bussey, K., & Banduram A. (1984). Redirecting the nature from self destructive to something approaching beneficial”( Hock, R. R. (2013). If my childhood had happened in the last say 15 years, 2 if not 5 of my primary biological caregivers would have gone to jail for various crimes. At the age of 6 I was asked by my primary babysitter if I wanted to move in with her and her family when my mother decided something which ultimately ended very badly for me. But I chose “wrong”, at age 6 (Schunk, D. H. (2012). It can be assessed that I survived my childhood mostly because of minor miracles and I had to become very smart very quickly. Reading their behavior patterns to know when it was not safe to be in site.

I was moved out of state twice because CPS in the 70s and early 80s had enough to step in. A few more months and I would have been pulled from home. Today the amount of evidence required is about 1/10^th to 1/16^th what they had to have then. So this question regarding what behavior patterns do you emulate from my childhood does not really apply.

I should have gone to college when I was 14, but the above happened. I would have had my first PhD when I was about 20. However, the above happened. I have spent from 16-48 working very very hard to extinct self-destructive behavior patterns. I could not attend college at a freshmen till almost a year after the matriarch died. Which was about 10 years ago. Issues and self-destructive behaviors kept me from higher education. Despite 5 of the 7 primary biological family members have advanced post grad education. I was not only not encouraged to attend post high school education, I was as strongly discouraged from it as they could and not break the law. Although academically my body of work proves them wrong in every single way imaginable. I was not able to capitalize on it till about 15 years ago. Although one of my ideas I developed circa 1995, from work I did in 1994. I am still working on filling in the academics and of course the mathematical models from it. But I am 48 years old, I had not extincted enough of the really bad stuff till about 13 years ago. It took a long time to identify and extinct.

references

Bussey, K., & Banduram A. (1984). Influence of gender constancy and social power on sex-linked modeling. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47(6), 1292-1302. Retrieved from: https://eds-b-ebscohost-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=103e3e89-d468-4cf0-80e4-a54c8511b65d%40sessionmgr120

Hock, R. R. (2013). Forty studies that changed psychology (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Schunk, D. H. (2012). Social cognitive theory. In APA educational psychology handbook, Vol 1: Theories, constructs, and critical issues. (pp. 101–123). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1037/13273-005