Psy 101 Personal Change Paper
Nikki DeBronzo
Personal Change Project
Psy 101
PART I: Analysis of Current Behavior The problem behavior I chose to address was my absences from school. Many times I would be too tired to go to class, since I live far away and work in the morning, which negatively effects my grades. Being a freshman, that is a very bad habit to get into at the beginning of my college career, knowing this I decided this would be the best behavior to change. I studied my behavior over the course of a week and noticed that I had missed one day of classes due to laziness and simply being tired. The next week I added the reinforcements and punishments. To begin with I thought of one for each and added on to what worked best for me. For my …show more content…
To begin with, adding extra study time proved unsuccessful because I would have a hard time focusing because it wasn't something I was in the mood to do, as it was a punishment. As for taking my laptop away, I had a hard time with that as well because I have to do work with it, which would just make me even more unproductive than I had been when I started. After those did not work I decided to turn my focus to the reinforcements. Luckily, the reinforcements worked much better for me. The negative reinforcement of adding extra alarms worked very well, I did not oversleep as I had the week before. On the same note, what worked the best for me were the positive reinforcements, so I used several of them. To begin with I added a coffee or tea every morning so I would be less tired and more likely to go to class. When I found that worked the positive reinforcement worked well I decided to add another. I then added going to get my nails done at the end of the week if I made it to all my classes as an intensive. When that worked I decided to keep it going even further, even after I completed this project. I came up with the idea to continue coming up with rewards at the end of each week as long as I go to every
Personal Change Project
Psy 101
PART I: Analysis of Current Behavior The problem behavior I chose to address was my absences from school. Many times I would be too tired to go to class, since I live far away and work in the morning, which negatively effects my grades. Being a freshman, that is a very bad habit to get into at the beginning of my college career, knowing this I decided this would be the best behavior to change. I studied my behavior over the course of a week and noticed that I had missed one day of classes due to laziness and simply being tired. The next week I added the reinforcements and punishments. To begin with I thought of one for each and added on to what worked best for me. For my …show more content…
To begin with, adding extra study time proved unsuccessful because I would have a hard time focusing because it wasn't something I was in the mood to do, as it was a punishment. As for taking my laptop away, I had a hard time with that as well because I have to do work with it, which would just make me even more unproductive than I had been when I started. After those did not work I decided to turn my focus to the reinforcements. Luckily, the reinforcements worked much better for me. The negative reinforcement of adding extra alarms worked very well, I did not oversleep as I had the week before. On the same note, what worked the best for me were the positive reinforcements, so I used several of them. To begin with I added a coffee or tea every morning so I would be less tired and more likely to go to class. When I found that worked the positive reinforcement worked well I decided to add another. I then added going to get my nails done at the end of the week if I made it to all my classes as an intensive. When that worked I decided to keep it going even further, even after I completed this project. I came up with the idea to continue coming up with rewards at the end of each week as long as I go to every