Chapter 27- Self-Management methods

Question 1

Massed practice

Answer 1

Forcing oneself to perform an undesired behavior again and again

Question 2

Self-control

Answer 2

Conceptualized as a two response phenomenon: on response affects variables in such a way as to change the probability of another response

Question 3

Self-evaluation

Answer 3

Comparison of personal performance with a predetermined goal or standard

Question 4

Self-instruction

Answer 4

Self-generated verbal response that functions as a response prompt for a desired behavior

Question 5

Self-management

Answer 5

The personal application of behavior change tactics that produces a desired behavior change

Question 6

Self-monitoring

Answer 6

A procedure whereby a person observes his behavior systematically and records the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a target behavior

Question 7

Systematic desensitization

Answer 7

A behavior therapy in which clients practice relaxing while imagining anxiety-producing situations in a sequence from the least fearful to the most fearful

Question 8

Habit reversal

Answer 8

Intervention in which clients are taught to self-monitor nervous habits and interrupt the behavior chain as soon as possible by engaging in an incompatible behavior