PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Bes, Abusive Power And Control

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Chapter 20: self-management: when a person uses behaviour modification procedures to change his or her own behaviour. People exhibit behavioural deficits, they fail to engage in desirable behaviours. The behaviours are desirable because they will have a positive impact on the people"s lives in the future. Self management problem is an excess of an undesirable behaviour. Behaviour is undesirable because it will have a negative impact on the person"s life in the future: examples of behavioural excesses are overeating, smoking, alcohol abuse, and gambling, behavioural deficit: studying. Immediate contingency: lack of reinforcement, response effort, reinforcement of competing behaviour (tv, parties: delayed positive outcomes: good grades, graduation, job or graduate school. Self-management involves a controlling behaviour and a controlled behaviour. goal-setting involves writing down the criterion level of the target behaviour and the time frame for the occurrence of the behaviour. If in conjunction with self-monitoring it is more effective.

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