Dollar And Miller's Behaviorist Model
The behavior that I chose to eliminate was biting my lip. According to my calculations my baseline frequency for biting my lip was 8 and my, and the total duration was 332 seconds. According to my experimental frequency, it dropped down to 5, and the duration came out to a low 45 seconds. This is a drastic decrease compared to my baseline, and the difference between the two was a total of 287 seconds. To analyze these findings I will be using Dollar and Miller’s behaviorist model. According to Miller and Dollar, biting my lip is habit because it is a learned association between a stimulus and a response that makes the two occur together frequently. I noticed that every time I bite my lip it’s either because of stress. Stress would be the
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By analyzing this habit Dollar and Miller would say that my lip biting has two goals that have positive value but are incompatible. The first approach would be the reduction of stress I get when I bite my lip, and the second approach would be not damaging my lip by not biting my lip. I cannot have both because if I can’t bite my life I still feel the stress, but if I do, I damage my lip. This experiment included snapping a rubber band on my wrist every time I caught myself biting my wrist. The reason why the duration and frequency decreased is because my response of biting my lip was not reinforced with a satisfaction of my drive which is stress. In fact the rubber band made my stress worse or my drive stronger because I now had to deal with the consequences of biting my lip by snapping the rubber band. At this point my response of biting my lip was undergoing extinction because from the first time I snapped the rubber band on my wrist the duration and frequency decreased. That response was no longer satisfying my drive which as a result the response decreases, or gets inhibited, in order to allow another response to take its place, or enabling another. My approach-approach conflict I once had when I bit my lip turned into an approach-avoidance conflict because biting my lip would satisfy my drive but as a result it would result in pain from snapping the rubber
By analyzing this habit Dollar and Miller would say that my lip biting has two goals that have positive value but are incompatible. The first approach would be the reduction of stress I get when I bite my lip, and the second approach would be not damaging my lip by not biting my lip. I cannot have both because if I can’t bite my life I still feel the stress, but if I do, I damage my lip. This experiment included snapping a rubber band on my wrist every time I caught myself biting my wrist. The reason why the duration and frequency decreased is because my response of biting my lip was not reinforced with a satisfaction of my drive which is stress. In fact the rubber band made my stress worse or my drive stronger because I now had to deal with the consequences of biting my lip by snapping the rubber band. At this point my response of biting my lip was undergoing extinction because from the first time I snapped the rubber band on my wrist the duration and frequency decreased. That response was no longer satisfying my drive which as a result the response decreases, or gets inhibited, in order to allow another response to take its place, or enabling another. My approach-approach conflict I once had when I bit my lip turned into an approach-avoidance conflict because biting my lip would satisfy my drive but as a result it would result in pain from snapping the rubber