shaping behavior- Kayla Eddy

Well, i wasn't quite sure what to do for this experiement, but after thinking about it i quickly came to an idea.  I realized i had kind of been doing it for a few days now.  In the morning, instead of taking the bus, my brother drives both of us to school. Lately he has been late getting up so we get to school right when the 5 minute bell rings.  Usually in our brother-sister relationship it is usually whatever he says, goes (since he is older and i'm not one who deals with confrontation well).  It didn't really bother me when we would get there 10- or even 5 minutes before the 5 minute bell rang, but now that we are later, it is a little annoying.  I figured that yelling at him wouldn't make him go any faster, if anything it would make him want to go slower just to prove he didn't care.  So i came up with the idea of waking him up every 2 or 3 minutes (instead of every 5 minutes).  And then after he got up i would let him know how much time i was going to take until i was ready to leave.  It kind of sounds bossy when i put it this way, but really it benefits both of us to get to school on time.  A few times, when i did it right, he seemed to be quicker and we would get to school before all of the traffic.  So i guess the behavior was my brother waking up late and the consequence was being almost late for school.  But when i changed the environment from saying nothing to pretty much giving instruction, i shaped his behavior and that changed the consequence to getting to school from 5 to 10 minutes earlier than before.