A Primary Purpose of Developing a Personal Contract for Behaviour

question 17

Multiple Choice

A primary purpose of developing a personal contract for behaviour change is to

• A) commit you to your word of behaviour modification.
• B) notify others of your intent to change your behaviour.
• C) prioritize the behaviours that you are considering changing.
• D) assess your motivation for changing a health behaviour.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which an action’s consequences determine how likely an action is to be performed in the future.

Vicarious Conditioning

Learning the consequences of an action by watching others being reinforced or punished for performing the action.

Sensitization

An increase in behavioral response after lengthy or repeated exposure to a stimulus.

Tabula Rasa

The idea that individuals are born without built-in mental content, and all knowledge comes from experience or perception.