PSYB45H3 Chapter 20: Chapter 20 Book Notes
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Chapter 26- 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 smoking, eating, drinking, and tv watching. responses that need to be increased such as studying, exercising, being assertive, and performing household chores. make people speak of will power that is responsible for overcoming such problems. it is more useful to look at how problems of self control stem from differences between effective versus ineffective consequences of a behavior. one type of self control problem consists of behavior excesses doing too much of something. all such behavior excesses lead to immediate reinforcers (good taste, enjoyable scenes on tv etc) and even though they might also lead to negative consequences, the latter are often ineffective. Immediate reinforcers versus delayed punishers for a behavior.
