PS282 Midterm: Midterm Review
Document Summary
Fun theory: fun is the easiest way to change people"s behaviour for the better. Exemplary community programs that created or altered ecological contexts to improve. Grow: mutual help organization for persons with serious mental illness, deliberately limits the size of local chapters, creates leadership roles for all members and maximizes responsibility for group functioning setting. Study: aimed to understand children"s lives of children in ecological context, systematic, naturalistic observations of all aspects of children"s everyday lives. Methods referred to as stream of behaviour : were interested in patterns of behaviour characteristic of a setting regardless of which individuals were there. Behaviour settings - not simply a physical place . People can change in a setting but behaviour may remain the same. Rules of behaviour settings: program circuits. Demand the overall behaviour in the setting. A meeting has an agenda: goal circuits. Purchasing books at a store or attending lecture. Control mechanisms of behaviour settings: deviation-countering circuits.
