Chapter 3-Application to social psychology to increase the impact of behavior-focused intervention

Question 1

The three-term contingency

Answer 1

Antecedent (activators)-Behavior-Consequence

-The activators direct a behavior necessary to obtain the desired consequence. (Phrased correctly?)

Question 2

How do you successfully change important behaviors? (4 antecedents)

Answer 2

1. Education: Educate the people you want to change their behavior.
2. Prompts: Verbal or written messages delivered in the place where the target behavior occurs.
3. Modelling: Demonstrate the specific behaviors to a target audience.
4. Behavioral commitment: Moral obligation while making commitments.

Question 3

Consequence strategies (2)

Answer 3

1. Penalties: People wants to avoid negative consequences.

2. Rewards: Positive reinforcement.

Question 4

What are the four points of a true experiment?

Answer 4

1. Random allocation
2. Variation of the independent variable
3. Control over the experiment
4. Testing causality

Question 5

What are the three points of a quasi-experiment?

Answer 5

1. Not random allocation
2. Not control over the experiment
3. DIfferent measures, same group. Tests before and after.

Question 6

What are the three points of correlational research?

Answer 6

1. Causality problem
2. Focus on individual differences
3. Correlation between dependent variables

Question 7

What are the four points of survey studies?

Answer 7

1. Describing
2. DIfferences in groups and time
3. Relations between variables
4. Interviews, archive data, secondary analysis

Question 8

Why is the disincentive/penalty approach most popular among government agencies? No answer

Answer 8

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Question 9

Explain the role of cognitive dissonance in affecting the impact of behaviour-change interventions. No answer

Answer 9

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Question 10

What is the block-leader approach?

Answer 10

An intervention technique in which members of a community neighbourhood are recruited to serve as intervention agents and encourage participation in a particular programme.

Question 11

What is countercontrol?

Answer 11

An attempt to regain perceived freedom by performing behaviour contrary to that advocated by a behaviour-change intervention.

Question 12

What is the foot-in-the-door technique?

Answer 12

Small request, then a bigger one.

Question 13

What does pluralistic ignorance mean?

Answer 13

The tendency to believe the private attitudes and beliefs of others are different from one’s own, despite identical public behaviour. (i.e. someone is laying on the ground, no one will help the person up because they don’t know if the person actually needs help and since no one else is helping, you ignore it as well because nothing seem to be wrong)