TEACHING SELF-CONTROL WITH QUALITATIVELY DIFFERENT

REINFORCERS

MICHAEL PASSAGE, MATT TINCANI, AND DONALD A. HANTULATEMPLE UNIVERSITY

Self-control is conceptualized as behavior that results in access to a delayed, more preferred consequence rather than to an immediate, less preferred consequence.

自我控制（自制）是心靈中的理性對情緒、情感、欲望、需求或本能的控制，是在社會關係或道德規範的要求下，逐漸培養出來的意向力，用以控制自己的偏好和短暫的衝動。

e.g., access to one crossword puzzle immediately vs. access to three crossword puzzles after a delay

強化物（零食、活動等），很喜歡的，一般喜歡的

e.g., drawing a line from the picture on the left to an identical or identical but silhouetted image on the right

If you would like to receive the [less preferred reinforcer] for doing nothing, point to it. If you would like to [do the task] until I say stop to receive the [more preferred reinforcer（做才能得到自己喜歡的）