Self-rules as facilitating variables on the emission of self-controled behaviors: the example of feeding behavior

Authors

  • Adriana Alcântara dos Reis
  • Eveny da Rocha Teixeira
  • Carla Cristina Paiva Paracampo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v9i1.3286

Keywords:

self-control, self-rules, feeding behavior

Abstract

The present paper aims to discuss and analyze the facilitating role of self-rules in the emission of selfcontrolled behaviors. Self-rules can make the performance insensitive to contingencies to which the individual is exposed and can facilitate the performance of the individual in situations that are similar to the one in which a self-rule had been formulated previously. From the knowledge of the variables of which a behavior is functional, the individual can manipulate the contingencies related to his own behavior modifying the probability of future emission. The self-control definition can emphasize two aspects: 1) the conflict between positive and negative consequences of a response; and 2) the temporal gap between the response and its consequence and the magnitude of reinforcers/aversives both in short and long term contingencies. Once a self-controlled response was emitted successfully, a similar situation in the future can evoke the description of the past contingency, favoring the self-control generalization. Examples related to the feeding behavior were used to illustrate possibilities of clinical intervention based upon the self-control proposals formulated by Skinner and Rachlin. The behavioranalysis therapy can give a greater emphasis to self-rules, despite of the theoretical-methodological difficulties to identify its role in self-controlled behaviors.

Keywords: self-control; self-rules; feeding behavior.

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Published

2005-10-13

How to Cite

dos Reis, A. A., Teixeira, E. da R., & Paracampo, C. C. P. (2005). Self-rules as facilitating variables on the emission of self-controled behaviors: the example of feeding behavior. Interação Em Psicologia, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v9i1.3286

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2005)

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