Agitation Passive Behavior

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

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Passive behaviors• When I discount, I do so by making

statement to myself in my own

head.

• Thus a discount itself is not

observable.

• Since you can’t thought read, you

have no way of knowing I am

discounting unless I speak or act in

some way which indicates the

presence of the discount.

Passive behaviors• There are four types of behavior

which always indicate that the

person concerned is

discounting. They are

• Doing nothing.

• Over adaptation.

• Agitation.

• Incapacitation or violence.

Agitation• The class of students is listening to

the lecturer. At the back of the room sits Adam.

• The lecturer is speaking rather quietly and Adam has difficulty in hearing him.

• As the lecture period goes on, Adam has more and more trouble following what lecturer is talking about.

• He puts down his pen and starts drumming his fingers on the desk. He is waggling his foot rapidly up and own in time of his finger drumming.

Agitation• Adam is showing agitation.• In this passive behavior, the

person is discounting his ability to act to solve the problem.

• He feels acutely uncomfortable, and engages in purposeless, repetitive activity in an attempt to relieve the discomfort.

• Energy is directed into the agitated activity instead of into action to solve the problem.

• During agitation, the person does not experience himself as thinking.

Agitation• If Adam were using his clear Adult, he

could simply attract the lecturer’s

attention and ask him to speak up.

• As it is, his finger drumming and food

waggling do nothing towards solving

his problem.

• Many common habits entail

aggression. Nail biting, smoking, hair

twiddling and compulsive eating are

all examples.

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