Behavior Principles in Everyday Life

This book comprehensively introduces the major psychological principles of behavior:operant conditioning, Pavlovian conditioning, social learning theory, and cognitive behaviorism. It closely links these basic abstract principles to relevant, concrete examples from everyday life--showing readers how each behavior principle operates in easily understood settings,and how to apply them in complex natural situations. Chapter topics cover behavior modification; primary and secondary reinforcers and punishers; differential reinforcement and shaping; modeling and observational learning; prompts and fading; rules; schedules; positive and negative control; and thinking, the self, and self-control. For individuals making the transition from adolescence into the various phases of adulthood--seeking a better understanding of their life, and ways to make it more positive.