PSYC 2660 Lecture 20: Lecture 20

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2660
• Professor: Garry Martin

Document Summary

2 reasons people have trouble resising temping behaviour. 1) the immediate reinforcement for the problem behaviour wins over the un-noiceable negaive efects that are only cumulaively signiicant. 1) athletes fail to engage in appropriate pracice aciviies because doing so leads to immediate small punishers while the posiives efects are immediate and too small to be accumulated unil done so over a period of ime. 1. commitment to change: statements or acions by an athlete that imply that it is important to improve in a certain area that the athlete knows has beneits worth improving. One way this is done is for the individual to apply self-reinforcement for desirable pracice behaviour think about things that make you feel beter when you want to quit. The athlete should arrange others to present reinforcers upon reinforcement lomoarcpsd| 987298 geing something good out of doing an exercise: ex) geing to eat a good meal if you go the extra mile.