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write comments and give opinion about the topics below:Self-Regulation and HabitsControl and WillpowerSelf-regulation refers to the self’s capacity to alter its own responses. It is quite similar to the everyday term “self-control.” People regulate their thoughts, their emotions, their impulses and desires, and their task performance. Human beings have a much greater capacity for self-regulation than most other creatures, and this is probably a crucial contributor to the human capacity to live in the complex social and cultural worlds we construct. Self-regulation enables people to be flexible, to adapt themselves to many different circumstances, rules, and demands. Self-regulation enables one’s social conscience to prevail over selfish impulses, so that people can do what is right and good rather than just indulging their selfish inclinations. In this way, self-regulation enables people to live together and get along much better. This fits the general theme that inner processes serve interpersonal functions. Self-regulation enables people to keep their promises, obey rules, respect others, control their temper, and do other things that make for better interpersonal relations.HabitsThe previous section focused on self-control, which consists of using deliberate effort to control your actions. Habits are in some ways the opposite. Habits occur with relatively little control by the deliberate system. The human mind appears to be set up to use the deliberate system to acquire new behaviors, but as these become performed over and over, they are gradually transferred to the automatic system. To say someone acted out of habit is to say that the person did not necessarily consider the action or alternatives, did not try to perform or resist that action, and may even have been scarcely aware of what they were doing.Diseases that were once largely eradicated in the United States a generation ago (e.g., whooping cough, measles, mumps) are returning, primarily because parents are deciding not to vaccinate their children for these diseases. For example, consider measles vaccinations. Before routine measles vaccinations were given, there were about 500,000 cases of measles in the United States and a high rate of complications from those cases, including 500 deaths. By 2000, it was declared that the endemic spread of measles in the United States had ended. However, in recent years measles outbreaks have increased. For example, there have been recent outbreaks in Texas, Minnesota, Kansas, and Missouri. Measles outbreaks have also occurred in many other developed countries (e.g., Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Singapore, the United Kingdom). Recent years have also seen horrific flu seasons where hundreds of children who did not get a flu vaccine have died from flu. Indeed, opting out of vaccination is now considered a global health threat by the World Health Organization. What has happened?
