Behavior Modification Plan

In order to help my roommate lose enough weight to make the football team, there are several steps of operant conditioning that must be followed. First, I must devise a behavior modification plan for my roommate that will motivate him to want to keep progressing toward his goal. In order to make sure that this plan is effective in continuous and steady weight loss, I will use operant conditioning and the schedules of reinforcement to motivate him. I will need to measure his progress or weight loss through exercise. Through behavior modification, positive reinforcement and schedules of reinforcement, I will be able to help my roommate meet his ideal weight goal in order to make the football team.

It is important to create a plan with incentives to motivate a person to complete a task or meet a goal. The modification program will be based on exercise. He will be required to run one mile at least five days a week. Each week the distance he must run will increase by one mile. By the end of week four, he should be running a total of four miles at least five days per week. In order to help him adapt to the behavioral changes, I must provide reinforcements for this behavior in order to help him lose weight. …show more content…
Reinforcement is an environmental event that makes a behavior more likely to re-occur in the future. I will be using positive reinforcement because I believe that it will yield the best results for my roommate. Positive reinforcement is an addition of a reward following the desired behavior. The reward he gets will be contingent on his behavior. If he meets the exercise requirements for the week he will be allowed to have a dessert. It is important to use the dessert as a positive reinforcement because the reward of dessert will result in him being more likely to continue that behavior for the next