PsychologyandIdeas

  Impulsive buyers are individulas who have a tendency of buying things just for tye sake of it. They had not planned to buy. They just buy for the  sake of it because whatever they purchase is not a need.  Right now, everyone is in the festive season and so much buying is ongoing. Right now it might be minimal due to the strain on our pockets as a result of Covid 19 effects on the economy. But normally people are: -travelling from urban to Rural aeas with a lot of shoppings buying clothings and shoes. buying groceries too. In the end you will be left wondering why you spent so much cash on such items and the mind keeps reflecting on how you spent the cash. Oftenly, you may misuse  money at at times it leaves you frustrated and even it may bring quarrels at houses. WHAT CAUSES IMPULSIVE BUYING. The feeling of not wanting to miss out . For instance unaenda Supermarket you get sanitary towels on offers or a soda with an offer. Not wanting to miss out you just pick tem ...

 REINFORCEMENT   This is a reward or consequence that increase the probability of a behavior recurring.  Betting is gambling cash upon the outcome of a certain event. For instance in Casinos, football or even races. A GAME OF ADDICTION Just like drugs, betting and gambling is addictive. For instance here in Kenya,  we have several mobile betting site and gambling is common. Am sure most reading this have had an experience on the same.  We have seen teens gamble with their savings until they own nothing and still crave for more. The question is, what brings about the addiction? Well, betting is a one time trial and its a series of several losses and little wins and one keeps trying in the hope of winning more where as the government earns revenue and the companies mostly foreign earn more.  I tend to think, mainly this is psychological manipulation with betting and gambling as the main activity posing as a recreative way and money earn earned is the rei...

    BYSTANDER EFFECT. What would you do if you found a girl being bullied in the streets?  Most people would walk away not wanting to associate with it  Others I believe would use their phones to capture this moment for their WhatsApp and Facebook statuses as well as Instagram posts.   Social scientists tend to believe that the number of people willing to help depends on the number of witnesses available. Besides, who wants to be taken a video of while helping out? we want to be the ones taking the videos and etc.  I tend to think this is also contributed to by the genetic make up of a person. Like the shy ones you cant blame them for not helping and am not saying the ones helping are not shy either. We can say Bystander effect is psychological and it happens in a situation where a person is less likely to help those in distress when passive witnesses or by-standers are present. I would love to hear on what ways do you think this can be lessened in our soc...

                    ATTITUDE  What do you think Attitude is? See how you hate something yet you like something else? That's it..  You behavior towards something whether like or dislike 👎  is attitude. If you want something so badly change you attitude towards it and definitely you gain a positive kind of approach towards the same😊. It can be positive, it can be negative You can't hate and love something at the same time, you mind deciphers the feeling and acts on it..  THE BATTLE ON SKILLS AND ATTITUDE. What do you think matters in a particular activity? The attitude or the skills?  You may be skilled but the wrong attitude towards the activity gives you less productivity. You may have the correct attitude hence working way up by learning and gaining equivalent productivity with others despite being less skilled. you may be skilled and coupled with the correct attitude you get more productive .     ...