Flashcards
March 19th
Cards in this deck (13)
- 1Skinner's Key to Self ControlEngage in a controlling response to modify a controlled response. (Ex: buying healthy food to decrease habit of bingeing on junk food)
- 2Skinner's Types of Controlling Responses1. Physical restraint
2. Depriving and satiating
3. Doing something else
4. Self reinforcement and self punishment - 3Physical restraintMaking physical changes to your environment in order to avoid the problem behavior. (Ex: Removing unhealthy foods from house so you can only eat healthy)
- 4Depriving and SatiatingDeprive or satiate yourself to influence desirability of future engagement. (Ex: eating before grocery shopping will make you shop smarter/healthier)
- 5Doing Something ElsePerforming an alternative ebavhior to avoid engaging in a certain behavior. (Ex: sitting on your hands every time you are about to chew on your finger nails)
- 6Self reinforcement and Self punishmentRewarding your own good behaviors and punishing your own bad ones. (Ex: Eating good all week so I can get a cheat meal on Friday) ** But what stops you from breaking the rule anyway?
- 7Solutions to Self-reinforcement andSelf-punishment1. External judgement: most effective when others know of your commitments
2. Guilt: One may feel guilty for not accomplishing their goals or - 8Smaller Sooner vs. Larger LaterWe tend to chose smaller sooner rewards over larger later rewards. These SSR undermine our abiility to work towards LLR b/c behavior is strongly influenced by delay.
- 9Problems with Delayed ConsequencesTheir value is weakened because they are delayed and less certain (Ex: immediate satisfaction from smoking, delayed chance of overall negative effects and uncertainty of acquiring a disease in the future based off of it)
- 10Mischel's Delay of Gratification Paradigm- Child obtain two marshmallows if he avoids eating the one in front of him
- Child increased self-control by doing something else, avoid looking at it or viewing it a different way - 11Commitment responseAn action carried out at an early point in time that serves either to eliminate or greatly reduce the value of upcoming temptation. Ex) Giving brother 20$ -> keep if I don't study -> alternatives to studying lose its value
- 12Small-but-Cumulative Effects ModelThe sum of small acts will cumulate into the increased or decreased likelihood of obtaining the desired long-term outcome. Ex) 'One chocolate bar won't hurt' turns into always giving into the chocolate bar
- 13Solution to Small-but-Cumulative Effects Model- Accept that temptation and mishaps will occur
- Plan all the way ahead
- Set pre-established rules for lapses which are and are not acceptable