To Get You to Increase the Frequency of Your Daily

question 30

Multiple Choice

To get you to increase the frequency of your daily exercise, operant behavior specialists are most likely to recommend that you

• A) specify your exercise goals and inform some close friends of your goals.
• B) congratulate yourself even when you fail to fulfill your specific exercise goals.
• C) never reward yourself with a light snack after achieving specific exercise goals.
• D) avoid trying to keep track of exactly how much you have exercised in a specific weekly period.

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies employed unconsciously to protect the self from anxiety, social sanctions, or to provide a refuge from a situation with which one cannot currently cope.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory by Freud, referring to a child's feelings of desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy towards the same-sex parent.

Phallic Complex

The phallic complex is a concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to a stage of psychosexual development where children's interest and attachment are focused on their genitalia and the differences between sexes.

Better-Than-Average Effect

A cognitive bias where individuals overestimate their own qualities and abilities relative to others.