PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Behavior Modification, Watching Movies, Abusive Power And Control
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Many problems of self-control involve self-restraint learning to decrease excessive behaviours that have immediate gratification such as excessive eating, drinking, tv watching, and time on facebook. Other problems of self-control require behavioural change in the opposite direction responses that need to be increased such as studying, exercising, being assertive, and performing household chores. It is useful to look at how problems of self-control stem from differences between effective versus ineffective consequences of behaviour. Most self-control programs proceed through 5 basic steps. Such programs are also called self- management or self-modification, a strategy for changing or control one"s own behaviour. One type of self-control problem consists of behavioral excesses doing too much of something. Immediate reinforcers versus delayed punishers for a behaviour: Example: suppose that a teenager wants to go out with friends but still has homework. When the parents ask about the homework, the teenager lies and is allowed to leave with friends.
