For the assessment: Carrie Ann has a tendency to procrastinate before completing
ID: 3488098 • Letter: F
Question
For the assessment: Carrie Ann has a tendency to procrastinate before completing her assignments. Between family, job, and school work, she has a busy schedule and often does not feel up to the task of trying to understand what is expected for assignments. Between her busy schedule and anxiety about doing the tasks required for assignments, she tends to wait until the day before an assignment is due to begin work on it. Because her work is rushed, she ends up not doing her best work. She would very much like to begin her work sooner, but each time she has an assignment due she ends up repeating the procrastination. Carrie Ann has decided to use operant conditioning principles to help her develop better habits in completing assignments. Carrie Ann will need to develop a target goal and plan for herself. Instructions: Behavioral terms to apply in the change plan: •Shaping. •Positive Reinforcement (You can also use negative reinforcement if it applies to your goal). Use one or both of the following in your plan (at least one must be included): Primary reinforcers. Secondary reinforcers.
Explanation / Answer
The asssignment could be planned out, breaking it into equal parts, eliminating the day before the assignment is due. This would help in distributing work equally, so that pressure doesn’t mount up in a single day. Also, at the end of the day, the end of each day’s work a reward can be placed, in the form of one chocolate bar or any ice cream , that might motivate the person to move towards finishing the goal. Also, it should be kept In mind that the rewards for everyday should be different, so that the motivation is persistent.
Here both primary and secondary reinforces are used to make a progress towards the goal. Primary reinforcers can be kept in the form of food, in this case and secondary reinforcer would be better performance and better grades.