Habitual behavior

Addiction may result from inappropriate neuronal plasticity. As discussed in earlier sections of this chapter, drugs of abuse activate the same neuronal pathways as natural reinforcers. However, they do so in a strong and unregulated manner that is hypothesized to lead to abnormal engagement of learning and memory mechanisms, ultimately producing abnormal plasticity in neuronal circuits involved in motivation and decision-making. As a result, the addict becomes narrowly focused on compulsive, habitual behaviors associated with the addictive... 

National Research Council. Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior. An Analysis of Marijuana Policy. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press. 1982. 41 p. 

Spontaneous locomotion behavior was also evaluated in adult NMRI mice (4 months old) that were exposed as neonates on Pnds 3, 10, or 19 to a single oral dose of 8 mg/kg of 2,2, 4,4 -tetraBDE (Eriksson et al. 1999). A non-habituating behavior profile similar to that observed in the Eriksson et al. (1998, 2001) studies was observed in the mice treated at either 3 or 10 days of age. There was no effect on spontaneous activity in the mice treated at 19 days of age, suggesting that there was a critical window for the induction of behavioral disturbances. 

In his work on psychology, Aristotle described character as "habitual behavior."2 You are what you ordinarily do—that is, until some occurrence leads you to do something you would not ordinarily do. In general terms, this is what makes for a dramatic situation. 

It is also the first step in the creation of a more complex character. The next step is to give your character a repetitive behavior pattern. This may be habitual behavior or opportunities to reinforce verbal or behavioral signage. In either case, you should introduce this early in the story and reinforce it as the story proceeds. 

Repetitive behavior, particularly in situations of stress, is understandable and will both identify and humanize your character. Excellent examples of habitual behavior include eating and greeting people in a particular manner a compulsive need for human contact, such as touching always mailing letters from the same postbox and always taking the same route to work. The key element here is that repetitive behavior, particularly with respect to everyday events, suggests the power of the emotions over the power of reason. 

Organizational behavior is the quality of the safety management system, namely, system files and their implementation status which run a direct result of habitual behavior of the members of the organization. The run behavior of organizational behavior is the root cause of the accident. From the point of view of the coal mine roof accident, organizational behavior errors include two aspects, one is roof safety procedures are not perfect, the other is a point of order problems in the implementation process. 

In [ 5], we introduced an electrophysiological technique which apply the phenomenon of response reduction due to repeatedly stimulation to differentiate between a high intensity responses of 100 decibel (dB) sound pressure level (SPL) and 50 dB SPL. We found that a unique signature (insignificantly habituate) of large-scale neural correlates of habituation in late auditory evoked potentials (LAEPs) when stimidated with lOOdB SPL. In contrast to lOOdB SPL stimrdated response, 50dB SPL stimulated responses showed a clear habituation behavior. 

We hypothesize that when a sound is too loud, it is hard to draw away one s attention towards the sound. We have tested this hypothesis in [5], [7] and we have found that insignificant or absence of habituation behavior responses when subjects were stimulated by a high stimulation level or UCL perceived intensity level in comparison to lower level of stimulations. Our results are supported by a few other previous findings such as more rapid habituation with stimuli of lower intensity [8] and strong stimuh may yield no significant habituation as reported by [9]. Moreover, [10] and [11] have observed that habituation is shown to be less and slower and when a subject pay attention to the stimuli. 

When trainers represent these behaviors as anomalous or irrational, they may fail to teach miners how habitual behaviors, reinforced through repetition in the workplace, often take the place of reasoned judgments about risk. We expect miners to become better—more experienced—as they perform more and more iterations of an action. But we may not perceive how these iterations become embodied habits that miners can perform mechanically without thinking. 

Before the proposed change is put in place, everyone (employees, the leadership team, engineering, maintenance, etc.) working in the process must be trained on the new process. The habitual behavior of the organization must be changed to ensure that the new process does not revert back to the traditional way of operating. If a drift is found in the ongoing measurements then other forces are at work that must be identified and reviewed. 

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