Heidi wants to increase her exercise. Currently she works out after work on average one day per week. The other days she goes out with friends. She has decided to shape her behavior by asking her friends to refuse to go out with her unless she has met her exercise goal for the week. The goal rate of exercise will be incrementally increased each week. This is a method of differential reinforcement called differential reinforcement of operant conditioning.
Exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness.
A conditioning procedure in which an undesired response is decreased by placing it on extinction or, less commonly, providing contingent punishment, while simultaneously providing reinforcement contingent on a desirable response.
Operant conditioning is a type of associative learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.
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