Chapter 20: Self-Management Flashcards
Self-Management
When a person uses behavior modification procedures to change his or her own behavior
- Identify and define a target behavior and arrange for one or more behavior to be modified
What is the goal of self-management strategies?
To increase the current level of the deficit behavior so that the positive outcome can be achieved for the person in the future
Undesirable behavior
- Has a negative impact on the person’s life in the future
- Continues because it is immediately reinforced when it occurs or because alternative behaviors are not present to compete with it
Desirable behavior
Has a positive impact on the person’s life in the future
- does not occur because it is not reinforced immediately when it occurs or because competing behavior that is immediately reinforced interferes with its occurrence
Controlling behavior
Involves implementing self-management strategies in which the antecedents and consequences of the target behavior or alternative behavior are modified making the controlled behavior more likely to happen
Goal-setting (Self Management)
Involves writing down the criterion level of the target behavior and the time frame for the occurrence of the behavior
- Goals should be achievable
- Most often implemented with self-monitoring
Antecedent Manipulations (self management)
Modify the environment in some way before the target behavior occurs to influence the future occurrence of the target behavior
- Manipulate:
- Sd
- MO
- Response effort
- Focus on:
- Desirable behavior and competing behavior
What are the 6 types of antecedent manipulations to increase behavior?
- Presenting cues
- Removing the cues
- Arranging an EO
- Presenting an AO
- Decreasing the response effort
- Increasing the response effort
T/F: All self-management procedures involve antecedent manipulations because the person engages in some controlling behaviors in advance of the target behavior to be controlled
True
Behavioral Contracting (self management)
A written document in which you identify the target behavior and arrange consequences contingent on a specified level of the target behavior in a specific time period
- another person applies the consequences but is considered self management because the contract is a controlling behavior designed to influence future target behavior
- Can be done without the manager, person implements consequences themselves, however, less effective
What do you do in a behavioral contract
- identify and define the target behavior to be changed
- establish a method of data collection
- define the criterion level of the target behavior to be achieved in the time frame of the contract
- arrange for contingencies and the person to implement contingencies
Short-circuiting the contingency
Occurs when a person arranges a reinforcer for a target behavior but then takes the reinforcer without first engaging in the target behavior
Social support
Occurs when significant others in a person’s life provide a natural context or cues for the occurrence of the target behavior
- Get others involved to prompt/reinforce/model desirable behaviors
- to prevent short circuiting
Self instructions
You are telling yourself what to do or how to do it in situations that call for a specific target behavior
– must be learned before you can use it
Self-praise
Immediately after an appropriate behavior occurs, you recite statements in which you provide positive evaluations of your own behavior
– must be learned before you can use it
