Lec 20 : Problem behavior might not be same for some pple.

IT is the temporal relationship between intermediate and delayed. Example: You are living on a campus; your roommate brought a movie that you wanna watch. Are you are gonna watch the 3 hour movie now or spend that 3 hour studying for tomorrows exam. If you actually gain knowledge, you will have societal advantage. Intellectually, your behavior will have an impact on the family that you are gonna have in the future. Pple who want to change the way they look, do things like exercise to reduce and jump right into it. Thus, they dont succeed. Why is that the case? We might be motivated to change the health and we jump into it why it doesnt work? From scientific perspective, your body is used to engage in certain activity for a long period of time. If u respond in a gradual fashion instead of jumping into it, it will be more effective. If somebody is trying to engage in a behavior that requires more responsibility, you wanna reverse back in time gradually. If you dont have patience to achieve the goal, you are likely gonna fail. Immediate small punishers for a behavior versus reinforcers that are cumulatively significant Example: If you think about changing ur health style by restricting ur diet, you can increase ur life time by 15-20 yrs according to latest research. Immediate small punisher for behavior versus immediate but highly improbable major punisher if the behavior does not occur Example: Driving a motor cycle. There are a certain states in the country where you dont have to wear hamlet. Without hamlet one can experience a horrible end. Wearing this hamlet is apparently hard . It had the reinforcing consequence when you take it off. You dont think that the highly improbably could be threat that you will hurt ur self, other pple & ur family. Children are selfish too. As we grew up, we realize that we are not the only pple in the world. Immediate small punisher for a behavior versus a delayed major punisher if the behavior does not occur Example: Putting sun screen over your body. Small punisher is that you have to wear this waxy thing all over your body. While a long term punisher would be that w/o sun screen you can get the skin cancer. Brushing your teeth. Small punisher is that it doesnt feel good when you brush ( u have to make an effort). Long term punisher could be dental hygienic problem. 1) Think about what problem is in front of you? Operationally define what you wanna do?

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e.g quitting smoke you know how to change it but most pple dont. We can modernize it by observing the data every day. Most pple dont know how implement BM program. They dont have luxury of that education. -> See if the behavior is deficit or excess. Be more specific; get closer and closer to wht your goal is. If you never articulate, you ll never succeed. Apply techniques- according to BF skinner if you engaging in self management, you have control over the behavior. You are using ones nervous sys to control its own nervous sys (ironic). In this example, controlling behavior is all about study. Studying is the behavior were mostly concerned about. Antecedent -> we might post the data for an upcoming exam in a conspicuous place so we know that there is an upcoming examination tht will influence our behavior. It makes you realize that if u didnt get As in last two years of uni, you wont get into the graduate school. If you are employing a self procedure, you might have a situation where you have study for 3 hours then you can go after to bar or watch movie. This is so imp. From your bodys perspective, your nervous sys & your body is reactive. Your mind is in a diff piece all together. If you learn a behavior, you can engage in a contingency where there is positive consequence. That behavior will inc in time. Its a contingency that you cant touch. If you are going on a treadmill, then u can chose to run with your friend so this behavior make frequent in the future. You have to have the heart to change yourself. Do they have a core motivation to change? If its not there, this entire process is not gonna work. It is difficult thing to tackle. You might have statements and actions that you wanna change. You are gonna make things public. Everybody shud see it. Some other person seas it, you make a public commitment ( where other pple sees it). And not achieving it will have a neg feelings. You shud have a frequent look at how you r doing, e.g posting the data in a graph or whatever format. Seeing the graph going up gives you motivation. Its simple but not easy. Making a graph is very easy but maintain the graph is a difficult idea. When we read the steps, we might not remember them at all time. You might want to do a functional assessment. You see wht might be the antecedents involve in behavior that your are trying to change. Try to see things ahead of time. Ex I wanna run today bcz I want to be healthy. That statement will make you go running. Saying a neg statement -> you more likely not gonna do it. Modeling you wanna change something about yourself. E.g. you are a shy individual & you wanna learn how to behavior. You know this person who is so confident and now the ques is how do you become a person like him? You learn wht somebody else is doing which is in the target range to whatever you wanna achieve Physical guidance- used mostly with developmental disable individual. You have to hold them down a certain way. Change your immediate surroundings pink room a quite room to study. It makes so much sense but it might not be conducive. Its a distraction to wht you can achieve. These goals have to be conducive to your behavior Our bodies readily absorb the info in the morning in the evening our body is designed that way that we feel tired and sleepy. Thus, integrating info in the evening become lower. E.g swearing too much you can pull up the antecedent and address it.

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Make sure you prevent relapse- for a lot of pple this happens. It takes a lot of effort to achieve personal goal. We have seen other pple achieving them. You have to define your behavior clearly so you know when to measure it. Our nervous sys need constant feeding on regular basis, to be proficient at something.