Reference no: EM133537883

Question

This project is designed to give you experience with operant conditioning. You are going to choose an unwanted behavior of yours that you would like to eliminate or a desirable behavior that you would like to increase. You are going to explore the causes of that unwanted behavior, using concepts from both classical and operant conditioning. The end goal of the project is for you to understand why you engage in that behavior (even if you don't successfully change the behavior). The first 5 days of the project will require you to track your behavior. This should provide you with two important kinds of information. First, you will gain an idea of just how often you engage in the behavior. Second, you should take note of any associations that you have made between stimuli present in the environment and the occurrence of the behavior. Are you most likely to engage in the behavior in certain locations, or after certain stressful experiences in your life (e.g., argument with friends or family, work)? Are there certain emotions that cause you to engage in the behavior, or other emotions that often occur when you don't engage in the behavior?