Question: Learning Difficult Behaviors Think about the last time you finally succeeded at something that had been giving you trouble. It could be a particularly troublesome class that you managed to pull through with a decent grade or a difficult project at work that you finally were able to finish satisfactorily.
1. Describe the specific behaviors that gave you trouble.
2. What antecedents prompted you to perform these behaviors?
3. What were the reinforcing consequences for performing these behaviors successfully?
4. Would you have been punished if you had not finally succeeded? If you had been punished, how would you have felt about it?
5. Did you use vicarious learning to try to solve your problem? If you did, who did you imitate and why? If you did not, why not?
6. Did you use self-control to try to solve your problem? If you did, what goal did you set for yourself, and what was your self-reinforcer? If you did not use selfcontrol, why not?
7. Describe your level of self-efficacy when you first started out, when you were having a particularly troublesome time, and when you finally succeeded.
8. What do you think your level of self-efficacy will be for similar tasks in the future? Why do you think your self-efficacy will be at this level?