self managment presentation
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EATING AT HOME TO SAVE MONEY
Psychology 671Courtney June
Dr. Malott8.11.11
Problem
I was eating food from restaurants several times a week and spending too much money.
Competing Contingencies
Will not have to cook Will not have to clean dishes Easier More time to
study socialize sleep
Natural Competing Contingency
Have N+1hours to
study
Have N hours to
study
Eat a mealat a
restaurant
BEFORE AFTERBEHAVIOR
The SM Intervention
Target behavior: Eating at a Restaurant
Intervention: Lose $2 for meals eaten out
after already having eaten out that week Contingencies: analog to a penalty
contingency
Deadline (SD): n/a
PM manager: Lori June
Start Date: June 13, 2011
End Date: August 11, 2011
Ineffective Natural Contingency
Have infinitesimally
less money
Have given amount
of money
Eat one mealat a
restaurant
BEFORE AFTERBEHAVIOR
The outcome was too small to control my behavior, though eating out many times has a cumulative significance on a bank account
Performance-Management Contingency
Will lose$2 on
Monday
Won’t lose$2 on
Monday
Eat one mealat a
restaurant
BEFORE AFTERBEHAVIOR
Does notfear losing
$2
Eat a mealat a
restaurant
Does fearLosing
$2
Direct Acting Contingency
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 80
1
2
3
4
5
Cum
. B
ehavio
r:
Meals
I E
at
from
a
Rest
aura
nt
Weeks at a Glance
Weeks
Baseline
Starting Date:June 13, 2011
SM Recycle
Goal Line
Target Behavior GraphC
um
. B
ehavio
r M
eals
I
Eat
at
Hom
e
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Weeks at a Glance
WeeksStarting Date: June 13, 2011
Baseline RecycleSM Goal
line
Benefit Measure Graph
0
1
2
3
4
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Baseline SM
Weeks
Cu
m. B
ehavio
r of
Eati
ng
M
eals
fro
m a
Rest
au
rant
Problems During Intervention
Not always enough time to go grocery shopping
Ineffective contingency $2 penalty was not large enough
Recycle
The $2 penalty contingency
was ineffective
Increased penalty to match
the cost of the meal If meal was $6, penalty was to pay
performance manager $6(Including
performance
management)
My Results
I found the recycle phase to be more effective
Paying my performance manager the amount that matches the price of the meal was more aversive than the simple $2
My Comments
Between you and me, I will not continue this project any longer.
It was nice being able to save money by limiting myself to one restaurant-meal a week.
BUT, it was so annoying. Especially when I would not finish
homework until later in the evening and was too tired to cook.
THANK YOU!!
Any Questions or
Comments?