Psychology / Unit 13 Psych 1479 review, 2 to 3 minutes
Building One Habit, Every Tool
The idea
Designing a behavior change plan means combining reinforcement schedules, shaping, modeling, self-efficacy, and intrinsic motivation, and anticipating each failure mode.
In practice
One target — a person establishing a daily writing practice — designed completely: the target behavior shaped from an achievable first approximation, the schedule chosen and why, the model available and the vicarious reinforcement visible, the self-efficacy built through early success, the extinction burst anticipated at week three, and the overjustification risk in the reward chosen. Ends by naming the one element that determines whether the habit survives the plan ending.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- 0541Reinforcement
- 0544Positive Reinforcement
- 0546Negative Reinforcement
- 0555Shaping
- 0561The Variable-Ratio Schedule
- 0569Extinction in Operant Conditioning
- 0579The Extinction Burst
- 0588Observational Learning
- 0993Self-Efficacy
- 0995Intrinsic Motivation
- 0997The Overjustification Effect
- 1057Problem-Focused Coping
- 1068Flow
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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