How has your past influenced your expectations? Distinguish between growth and d

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1. How has your past influenced your expectations?
2. Distinguish between growth and destiny beliefs.
3. Explain the concept of positive illusion and suggest how it might foster long-term satisfaction and stability in close relationships.
4. Compare idealistic vs. realistic perceptions when it comes to authenticity and unconditional acceptance
5. People talk about "myths about marriage" and "myths about relationships." Are there other myths that you would add?
6. How could beliefs in some of these myths have a deleterious effect on long-term relationships?
7. Explain the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy and describe if/how it could hurt a relationship.

1. How has your past influenced your expectations?
2. Distinguish between growth and destiny beliefs.
3. Explain the concept of positive illusion and suggest how it might foster long-term satisfaction and stability in close relationships.
4. Compare idealistic vs. realistic perceptions when it comes to authenticity and unconditional acceptance
5. People talk about "myths about marriage" and "myths about relationships." Are there other myths that you would add?
6. How could beliefs in some of these myths have a deleterious effect on long-term relationships?
7. Explain the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy and describe if/how it could hurt a relationship.

Explanation / Answer

From a cognitive- behaviourist point of view, past experiences have a potential influence on our response to our environment based on cognitive model of expectations. In other words, positive experiences create positive emotions and thoughts and they in turn lead us to feel hopeful about rewarding outc9mes in the future also. Thus, I often noticed how my elder siblings could interact with adults with more confidence because they always received positive feedback from adults for being physically attractive children. Thus, their previous experience with adults somehow made them approach the world with greater level of assertiveness because they expected positive outcomes for their socially outgoing behaviour.

In the same way, negative experiences can lead us towards self-defeating thoughts and negative feelings and we may avoid situations or people because of a negative feedback loop where we already expect aversive or unpleasant outcomes. Thus, I can look back and reflect on my own difficulty with mathematics during my initial years of schooling and how that had contributed to my apprehension about any sort of mathematical operation in the present. This happens so because the past becomes like a prototype for our future expectations and such a cognitively model can be seen to be the basis for much of our interpersonal and social interactions.

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