PSYB45H3 Chapter 20: CHAPTER 20.docx
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This is a procedure that a person uses to change his/her behaviours. Getting murray to start exercising again, getting anneatte to clean up her mess. Behavioural deficit is when they fail to engage in desirable behaviours but the behaviour doesn"t occur because it is not reinforced immediately or there is a competing behaviour immediately reinforced. Behavioural excess ie overating, over smoking etc re behavioural problems that have a negative impact on an indiivudlas life in future but it continues because it is immediately reinforced. Temporal discounting says that the longer the delay between behaviours and reinforcing consewuence the less likely the consequence is to function as a reinforce. Defining self management person engages in behaviour @ one time to control the occurrence of the behaviour at another time. Controlling behaviour influences the future occurrence of the controlled behaviour. Antecedents and the consequences of the behaviours are modified.
