Assignment for Behavior Change Project | PSY 107, Assignments of Psychology

Behavior Change Project

This assignment is worth up to 20 points.

1. Select your goals:

What do you want for yourself? How do you want to be different?

Make your goals specific rather than vague. For example: I want to loose 5

pounds, exercise daily, meet new people, start dating someone special, keep

up in all my classes, study for 2 hours every night, stop smoking, stop

drinking, drugs, gambling, nail biting, exaggerating, spending, shopping, or

credit card debt. You might want to attend all classes even when you are

____________________________________________________________2. Translate your

goals into target behaviors – that is, the behaviors you need to change or

acquire in order to reach your goal. What specific behaviors would you like

to increase? What behaviors do you want to decrease? How might you

reach your goal? We are talking hear about something you can actually see

and experience. Examples: I will not buy any cigarettes or borrow them

from my friends during this time. I will not eat anything with sugar in it. I

will control my temper by breathing deeply and trying to listen to what the

other person is saying. I will wake up early and go to the gym for one hour

3. Develop a contract

I will change… What are the habits or behaviors that are currently

preventing you from reaching your goal?

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4. I will know I have changed when (what will the evidence be?) What would

someone actually be able to observe?