Psy 421 Ch 8 Flashcards
Reinfocement is deprived whenever the subject partakes in the contingent behavior.
Time out from positive reinforcement
The tendency to do things now that affect our later behavior. This involves a controlling behavior and a controlled behavior.
Self Control
Doing something that physically prevents a behavior from occurring.
Physical Restraint
A self control technique of staying away from situation that are likely to elicit undesirable behavior.
Distancing
consisting of keeping a tally of the number of times the behavior in question occurs
Monitoring behavior
Consisting of directing attention away from events that are likely to elicit undesirable behavior
Distracting
A person tells others of his or her efforts to change his behavior
Inform others of your goals
Boyle taught Coma patients to comply with her demands and make them aware of the environment.
The shaping of awareness
The failure to escape an aversive following exposure to an inescapable aversive.
Learned helplessness
Depression can be caused by life events
how Learned helplessness is related to depression
An increased tendency to work hard for prolonged periods as a result of reinforcement of high levels of effort and persistence.
Learned industriousness
When a person spends so much time in an activity that he neglects his personal hygiene, no longer takes an interest in his appearance, gets too little sleep, loses friendships, does a poor job at work, or ignores his family, then we can probably agree that his participation is…
Excessive
Compulsions or addictions
What excesses are normally called
any increase in the strength of behavior that is due to coincidental reinforcement
Superstitious behavior
a situation in which reinforcement is available, but the behavior necessary to produce it is not.
Problem
