Targeteded Behavior

The targeted behavior I have chosen to do is my motivation to study. I have chosen this behavior because I often have no motivation to study, which is why I usually end up studying later at night and then I don’t finish until early morning. This is something I have been trying to change ever since the beginning of college, but it just seems to have been the same or getting worse over the past three years. Therefore, with the results of the past eight days and the data I collected of my studying; I have found some of the same ineffective but also some effective ways to motivate myself to study. In the data I collected with my studying I found myself using more positive reinforcements rather than negative reinforcements or punishments. Some …show more content…
I used a continuous schedule because every time I studied for a certain amount of time I would do the same thing each day, but I would use a positive reinforcement such as Netflix or video games to keep motivating myself to keep studying every day. Along with my positive punishments, I went to tutoring and got help from some of my friends. Even though I did use these positive punishments to help me out, they were actually not as helpful as I intended them to be. So my positive reinforcements helped me out more to study than my positive …show more content…
So if I were to study for three hours straight with no break I would give myself an hour or two of Netflix after, or if I were to study for like four to five hours straight with a ten minute break in between I would give myself an even bigger break. All the modifications in my behavior really pushed me to get more done, but there were times when my modifications did not work because of the way I was feeling most or some days. In result to this I ended up just not studying some days at all, because I was either feeling down one day or feeling clueless on the other days which in my data it showed that it happed half the