Also, I would like to know, as I myself a, doing behavioural analysis from a cognitive structure point of view, what are the main aspects of your research when it comes down to questions. Have you surveyed these people or are they random.
In addition to this, I'd also like to know that according to yu, which perspectives of their behavioural attributes were most complex to understand and how willing were they to change their behaviour.
My approach to asking questions has a fundamental principle at its root: that question-and-answer, as a format, is the most basic form of human language interaction. I wanted to use a mode of engagement that would be applicable to everyone.
So my use of questions is primarily as a content delivery mechanism, and secondarily as a feedback mechanism. So a time-delimited multiple-choice question, where points were won or lost depending on how well and quickly the question was answered, served effectively to engage most participants for several months.
By "feedback" I mean that HOW the participants answered -- i.e., how often they answered correctly, and what change if any occurred in that rate of correctness after repeated exposure -- was collected as one data point on whether or not they were retaining the information.
Surveys and focus groups were employed after delivery of the programs that I cited in my article. These provided other data points on their experience and where their attitudes were changed.
In my work, I have discovered (and have done more and more exploration of this) that people's willingness to change behavior is correlate to how familiar they are with the subject matter to which the targeted behavior is related. In my article, you'll see I've cited numerous studies that used my approach as a way of engaging participants repeatedly for days, weeks even moths at a time, exposing them to subject matter they otherwise would not think about on a daily basis, and not nearly at that rate of repeated exposure.
So I would say the behaviors that were the most complex and difficult to change were the ones where the participant had a perception that they didn't know much about subject matter.
And there was one other factor that seemed pronounced: if the participant already believed that changing their behavior would make little difference in their life, they were unlikely to change it.
Does this help?
Robert Feeney I thank you for your answer. It was very helpful and with loads of useful insight. You said, verbatim ' In my work, I have discovered (and have done more and more exploration of this) that people's willingness to change behavior is correlate to how familiar they are with the subject matter to which the targeted behavior is related.' - Do you, in this case, think that at a micro level, behavior depends upon awareness? I know that it does, but I am interested to know up to what level.
Shahida Anusha Siddiqui can you give me a scenario to illustrate your question?
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