Research on Habits Shows That If You Want to Break

question 133

Multiple Choice

Research on habits shows that if you want to break a habit it helps to ____.

• A) stay in your routine to keep your arousal level lower
• B) change your routine to raise your arousal level
• C) stay in your routine to maintain social support cues
• D) change your routine to alter the stimulus cues that support the habit

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Definitions:

Shaping Successive Approximations

A behavior modification technique that reinforces behaviors progressively closer to the desired behavior, used effectively in both humans and animals.

Skinner Box

An experimental apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for studying behavioral conditioning in animals, particularly with reinforcements.

Shaping

A method of training or teaching by which successive approximations toward a desired behavior are reinforced.

Reinforcer

Any stimulus that increases the likelihood that a preceding behavior will occur again.