topic 20

Question 1

define self management

define: Skinner’s two-response concepts of self-control

Answer 1

• engaging in one behaviour to control or prevent the occurence of a target behaviour
  SKINNER
• controlling response: behaviour that influences future occurence of the controlled response (self-management behaviour)
• controlled response: the behaviour that you want to change (Target behaviour)

Question 2

Types of self-management strategies

explain goal setting

Answer 2

• expilicitly determining the criterion level of the target behaviour and the timeframe for achieving it
• achievement can be a conditioned reinforcer
• should alwasy be SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound

Question 3

Types of self-management strategies

explain self-monitoring

Answer 3

• person observes and records their own behaviour as it occurs
• often produces reactivity
• typically used with goal setting

Question 4

Types of self-management strategies

explain manipulating antecedents

Answer 4

• antecedents intervetions

Question 5

Types of self-management strategies

explain behavioural contract

Answer 5

• written doc that defines and specifically states: target behaviour, data collection, criteria, timefreame, contingencies

Question 6

Types of self-management strategies

explain self-administered consequences

Answer 6

• manipulating reinforcers and punishers
• may take unearned rewards “bootleg reinforcement or short cicuiting the contingency”

Question 7

Types of self-management strategies

explain social support

Answer 7

• other people serve as cues for the target behaviour or provide natural reinforcers

Question 8

Types of self-management strategies

explain self instructions adn self praise

Answer 8

• self-instructions: statements that tell yourself what to do, how to do it or when to do it
• states of affirmative evaluations of your behaviour

Question 9

9 steps on how to use self-management

Answer 9

1. decide to engage in self-management
2. define the target behaviours and competing baheviours
3. set goals
4. self-monitor
5. conduct a functional assessment
6. choose appropriate slef-management strategies
7. evalute change
8. reevaluate self-managemetn strategies if necessary
9. implement maintenance/gernealization strategies