The environment of this is my brother being bored, because when he is not in that mind set of having nothing to do around 8 at night he knows what he can do to get a rise out of the whole family by just preforming a specific behavior. The behavior that my brother does is standing in front of my television which is a negative stimulus to me therefore making the consequence me screaming and chasing it.
I wanted to shape this behavior by changing the consequence. I was only able to see this one time in action, and to my surprise it worked.
When he came in and stood in front of my t.v. i just continued to look at the magazine i had in my hand pretending to be more interested in it, rather than the television. When my brother realized that I didn't seem to care if I saw what was on the t.v. or not he slowly backed away and looked at me with a "now what?" look on his face. I just smiled and started asking him questions about his day, so rather than losing it completely I showed interest which is all he was really looking for in the first place.
This was cool to see how even a small consequence and reinforcement changed a behavior. With my positive reinforcement of showing interest in what he had done in the day and treating him like something more than a pest, his behavior changed in a split second, I will definitely continue to use this tactic it works great and doesn't take a lot to do.
LYDIA WITSCHEL
1 comment:
since im a guy and i know that i usually was board if i had nothing better to do than bug my sister i was suprised by your response that your brother actually wanted to talk about his day, he must have been really bored. i think you handle it well it seems like the more you ignore people the more they get annoyed. i prolly would have locked my door, but i don't know if u have a door or if your parents let u shut it so....
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