The choices a person makes in life depend entirely on how they perceive the world and the people around them. When it comes to making a decision that could affect the rest of my life, I take much consideration into all the possible outcomes of my decision by observing those who have made each of the choices possible. When it came to choosing whether or not to attend a university, several psychological factors played an important role in helping me to reach a decision.

Towards the beginning of high school, the thought of studying, homework and class-work was rather unpleasant. I remember seeing 9th grade as such an unreasonable obligation. It wasn't until my junior year that I suddenly realized that the work I did every day, even the smallest of assignments, actually mattered. Why did everything matter? College! If I could study, complete all assignments, and get good grades, the end result would be my acceptance into a good university. Looking towards psychology to classify this revelation, I found the answer in a theory dealing with Operant Conditioning. In my case, the Premack Principle could describe accurately my reasoning for attending a university. This principle sta

For many students, the choice of whether to go to college or not depends on many outside factors. Since many kids tend to watch an excessive amount of television, an increased amount of pro-education commercials, containing high profile, idol-like celebrities would help to make use of the concept of Observational Learning. The trick is to make youths see these successful celebrities as a product of a good education. Another good tactic would be to encourage children to pursue their interests. If a student has intrinsic motivation towards something like math, music, or history, it is extremely important to let these kids know that what they love to do could in the future be used for more than just personal emotional gratification. Make sure that they know that in most cases, there is a potential market for their passions, and that it is important that they obtain some sort of academic backing to officially show their talent...this is what a college education will do.

There are many role-model-type people whose "success" never had anything to do with a college education. Take some musicians for example. Images like the rags-to-riches story of a lone guitarist who wrote a great song and made it big overnight. And what of the extremely wealthy rappers who own several Mercedes, but never got past the 10th grade? These stories (however shallow they may be) seem to hint towards those who idolize these people that a college educatio

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