My Habit Of Lips Licking And Biting - 900 Words

The behavior I want to eliminate in this assignment is my habit of lips licking and biting. When I heard about this assignment, I started to search for a bad habit. After a few days of observation, I found that I bite my lips a lot and also I lick my lips. Especially, while I am in a boring class or when I am in boring situations. People’s around me never told me that I lick and bite my lips, therefore I think this behavior of mine is not very recognizable. The reason why I want to eliminate this habit is because, when I lick my lips, saliva makes my lips very dry and easy to crack caused from excessive licking and biting. Although, this behavior of mine does not bother me much, it damages my lips a lot and makes it look bad which makes me want to eliminate this behavior more. As a result of my first four days of observation, I found that I bite my lips a lot when I am in a boring situation. Especially, when I was waiting to play basketball at the campus Recreational center I bite my lips frequently. In my opinion this is likely resulted from boredom of waiting to play for several minutes. Also, I bit and licked my lips many times in a class which I find quite boring. According to the classical conditioning terms, feeling bored is the conditioned stimulus (UCS), biting and licking my lips is the unconditioned response (UCR), whereas waiting in line or being in a boring class is the conditioned stimulus (CS), and biting my lips is the result of being bored in a class orShow MoreRelatedThe Ballad of the Sad Cafe46714 Words   |  187 Pagesup at Miss Amelia. That s me, she said. How do you mean kin ? Because -- the hunchback began. He looked uneasy, almost as though he was about to cry. He rested the suitcase on the bottom step, but did not take his hand from the handle. My mother was Fanny Jesup and she come from Cheehaw. She left Cheehaw some thirty years ago when she married her first husband. I remember hearing her tell how she had a half-sister named Martha. And back in Cheehaw today they tell me that was your mother