PSY 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stimulus Control

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3306
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

To help reduce behaviours that may contribute to ill health. Want a program that you can apply to the whole population: to help those ready to change and those not. Tanstheoretical model of behaviour change (ttm: transcends any one form of approach. Stages that people go through to experience change. If you have a mismatch between the stage a person is in and the programme you choose = problems. Stages of change: categorized segments of a population. Why things are not changing in smoking quitting programs, and self motivated people: the people who end up in the programs are usual the ones who are having the most dif culty. Usually behaviour techniques: focuses on changing behaviour right now, can make the long term more dif cult. Which therapy compliments the process of change: must look at the approach and match where they are in stage of change. Self-changers (in smoking) compared to those in professional problems.