First watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp0O2vi8DX4 by Tali Sharot. 00:16:48

Reflect on the following questions:

Aspect A: What is the behavior you would like to change?

Aspect B: Based on what you are learning in this module, how might you tackle changing the behavior?

Aspect C: Selective attention is when we choose to take in one type of information, but not the other. How have you been influenced by selective attention when rationalizing your behavior? What have you relied on to support why you continue doing what you do?

Aspect D: Using the 3 principles identified in the video, describe how you could use each to influence behavioral change. Clearly label each of the three principles before describing what you will do.

Aspect E: Identify something in the video that shocked you or made you think. Why did that bit of information impact you?

Please choose TWO of the three provided Essay prompts and thoroughly answer all aspects of the question.

OPTION A: Cooper trains his boyfriend Patrick to avoid eating cake every day by squirting him with a water pistol every time he sees Patrick moving toward a cake. Eventually, Patrick avoids cakes altogether and now cringes when he sees a water pistol.

1. Identify the UCR, UCS, CS, and CR for this example of the cake and the water pistol.
2. Briefly describe another situation from your everydaylifethat utilizes classical conditioning and clearly identify the UCR, UCS, CS, and CR.

OPTION B: It is well known that reading 20 minutes a day is a very beneficial habit for school aged children to develop.

1. Describe how you could use the operant conditioning concept of reinforcement to encourage reading.
2. Identifying something that a child might be doing that would distract them from reading. Describe how you could use the operant conditioning concept of punishment to decrease the distracting behavior.

OPTION C: Observational learning is all about watching how other people interact and learning from those interactions.

1. Briefly describe the Bandura Bobo Doll study and the findings from that study.
2. Explain how you can use vicarious reinforcement and vicarious punishment to teach Adele how to share her stuffed bunny.