BCM: Methods to Change Habitual, Automatic and Impulsive Behaviours Flashcards
Bartholomew et al., 2011
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Letting people experience a lack of reinforcement or even negative outcomes of the undesired behavior. Slow process, especially when reinforcement schedule was intermittent. It may be necessary to create a continuous lack of positive reinforcement.
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Deconditioning
2
Q
Encouraging the learning of
healthier behaviors that can
substitute for problem behaviors.
Availability of substitute behaviors
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Counterconditioning
3
Q
Prompting making if-then plans that link situational cues with responses that are effective in attaining goals or desired outcomes. Existing positive intention.
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Implementation Intentions
4
Q
Teaching people to change a
stimulus that elicits or signals a
behavior.
Existing positive intention.
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Cue Altering
5
Q
Encouraging removing cues for unhealthy habits and adding prompts for healthier alternatives. Needs insight in the behavioral chain leading to the automatic response.
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Stimulus Control
6
Q
Getting the person to identify potential barriers and ways to overcome these. Identification of high-risk situations and practice of coping response.
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Planning coping responses
7
Q
Having people choose a (larger) delayed reward far in advance. Making the choice may be forced but the choice for the delayed reward needs to be voluntary
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Early commitment
8
Q
Stimulating pledging, promising or engaging oneself to perform the healthful behavior, and announcing that decision to others. Most effective when publicly announced; may include contracting.
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Public Commitment
9
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Improving the top-down mental control processes that are used when going on automatic or relying on instinct or intuition would be illadvised, insufficient, or impossible. The task has to be challenging and substantial repetition is required to sufficiently train the executive functions.
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Training executive function
