PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Abusive Power And Control, Reinforcement, Behavior Modification
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Helping an individual to develop self-control: many problems of self-control involve self-restraint learning to decrease excessive behaviors that have immediate gratification such as excessive eating, drinking, tv watching, and time on. Self-control programs are also called self-management or self-modification, a strategy for using p(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:272)iples of (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396) a(cid:374)al(cid:455)sis to (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge o(cid:396) (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396). Problems of behaviour excesses: one type of self-control problem consists of behavioral excesses doing too much of something. Immediate reinforcers versus delayed punishers for a behavior: 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: lying is immediately reinforced. The lie is not discovered until later, and the consequent punishment (e. g. , being grounded, failing the assignment) is long delayed from the instance of lying. If a behavior leads to immediate reinforcers but delayed punishers, the immediate reinforcers often win out.
