Suppose that you desire to get into a Master's program, which requires a good grade in a particularly challenging course. To keep up with course material you made a plan at the beginning of the semester to study on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings for 1 hour. In January you successfully accomplished this goal. However, by February, you had stopped this behavior completely.

1. Using the Ainslie-Rachlin Model explain what may have happened on the days that you failed to study as you had planned (be specific and show good understanding of this model)

2. How would the availability of other sources of reinforcement during the study time impact this scenario?

3. How could a commitment response help reduce temptation?

4. What would the small-but-cumulative effects model suggest as a solution to this problem?

5. What are two "self-management" tools suggested by Skinner that could help increase the chances this goal would be met?