Extinction
The extinction of righteousness
In psychology, extinction refers to the gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior, good or bad, decreasing or disappearing.
Extinction is the decrease in strength of a learned behavior when the behavior is no longer reinforced and the proclivity to it is diminished.
Operant Extinction refers to the gradual decrease in the response rate of a behavior learned via reinforcement. This can be the result of conformity to an alternative form of behavior with a different reinforcement.
Conformity is the process whereby people change their beliefs, attitudes, actions, or perceptions to more closely match those held by groups or individuals to which they belong or want to have a relation with or whose approval they desire.
Types of conformity: compliance, identification, and internalization
- Compliance: the tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
- Identification: A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding, or belonging towards somebody or something.
- Internalization: Unconscious mental process where characteristics, beliefs, feelings and attitudes of other people are assimilated into your own self.
The need for approval is the need to garner that sense of physical and emotional security through an acceptable feedback which integrates the mind of one with the mind of the group.
Do you know what you believe?
What are your essential and fundamental values?
Do you know who you are without external justification?
Justification
When justification of behavior is desired, relationships may require conformity. that need for justification simply prompts people to conform to what ever behavior is in need of justification.
Passive justification of bad behavior in others leads toward conformity to personal bad behavior which creates cognitive dissonance that will require some form of self justification.
Self-justification describes how, when a person encounters cognitive dissonance, or a situation in which a person's behavior is inconsistent with their beliefs (hypocrisy), that person tends to justify the behavior and deny any negative feedback associated with the behavior.
Denial that filters the view of the feed back from reality is denial of the truth.
Denial of the truth is denial of the light of consciousness which will lead to a dark place.
Targeting
Maladaptive behaviors inhibit your ability to adjust healthily to particular situations. In essence, they prevent you from adapting or coping well with the demands and stresses of life.
Maladaptive behaviors are dysfunctional and non-productive behaviours.
Adaptive behavior is behavior that enables a person to cope in their environment with greatest success and least conflict with others or themselves.
Adaptive behavior may relate to everyday skills or tasks, addictions, destructive or negative behavior, but also to the most fundamental virtuous social bonds of society.
A maladaptive behavior is a type of behavior that is often used to reduce one's anxiety, but the result is dysfunctional and non-productive, even counter productive or harmful.
The behaviors have a self-destructive nature to them. Because there is a singularity element to society all appearances of self-destruction will encompass destruction of others even to the point of extinction.
Maladaptive and adaptive behaviors of individuals who compose society are outlined in the Ten Commandments.
The more society abandons or denies those behavior outline the closer they move toward social extinction.
"Extinction bursts" refer to the expected and temporary escalations in the frequency, duration, and/or intensity of the maladaptive “target” behavior (i.e., tantrums).