Critical Thinking Paper on Driving

In a growing country like the Unites States, we see people facing many problems, which they are unaware of, with driving. The problems people face with driving are mainly excessive speeding, following too closely, not signaling lane language, and aggressive driving. Me as a psychological consultant, I think law enforcement agencies should have to deal with excessive speeding, firstly.

In case of speed in driving, some psychologists have studied on how people identify things as a type of homeostatic process called level of adaptation. As said by psychologists, human brains record sensations human's body experience and store them along a continuum from smaller to larger, during the process of speeding. A specific level of adaptation created by the limit of speed person used to travel. Just like this experience, human body always wants to feel same way during driving. This kind of sensation called as a road schema.

In my opinion, drivers, who caught speeding, have to pay the big amount of punishment. So, this way we should try to get-rid of unnecessary speeding in driving. Sometimes, people try to act just like movie when they drive. Some are try to do some speeding stunts from movies, and this is the one reason why drivers break the speed limits on any kinds of roads.

In addition, some drivers trap themselves into speeding thrills, and cause them to demolish their regular level of adaptation to the car's motion. Having a speed schema is a big deal in driving. Speed Schema can be effect on driver's behavior. Speed Schema changes drivers' behavior to drive fast, hop back and forth across the lane, and think other cars as hindrance. Most often, some drivers have been proved guilty for driving faster even when it is impossible. These types of drivers can put their passengers' life in danger. Drivers, who speed, have adapted at the high level of risk. There are also other reasons why drivers drive fast even when they are not drunk. Rush addicted drivers speed when they get anxious, disappointed, and displeased.

Getting deeper into my opinions, if a driver speed once, then he/she get use to speed fast as day go, in the concept of Psychology. There are three types of behavior, which a driver, who speeds, has it. Three types are: affective behavior, cognitive behavior, and sensory-motor behavior. I think driver should train that psychological way, which way they do not try to speed in future. As a psychological consultant, I would say that this type of class should be taken before approving one's driver incense. So, that way we can reduce the risk of speeding

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