The Biggest Loser is a reality television show that tracks contestants on their weight loss journey. The contestants develop exercise routines and change their eating habits in an effort to lose the most weight at the end of each week, or at least enough weight to beat their fellow contestants and keep them there another week. The ultimate winner receives a large sum of money and a new body. On Tuesday's episode, the contestants were presented with a "temptation." They were given access to a room full of food (healthy and unhealthy) and had to choose all of their meals for one day from that room. Most of the contestants were able to resist the temptation and pick foods that were condusive with their new diets.
The contestants became conditioned to eating a different diet. Rather than choosing the foods that they were used to eating, their behavior was modified. Each week their good behavor was rewarded with high numbers on the scale and a chance to stay on the show another week, which served as their rewards. These are the same concepts that we reviewed in Chapter 5, Learning. In addition, their personal trainers were reinforcers, who ensured that the good behavior was recognized and the bad behavior was punished (with more difficult work outs).
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Margie, I love to watch this show "Biggest Loser". Yes, this episode was about "temptation", but the contestants had to maintain there minds to stay on the right track with there diet routine. This will be a situation that the contestants will have to face each day when they leave off the Biggest Loser Ranch. Like you stated if they maintain there eating habits and exercise the right way at the end of the week the scale shows the reward for there good behavior. You are so corrected about the personal trainers they are the reinforces, because if the contestants slack off or don't have good number at the weigh in they really make them work extra hard to see if they have what it takes to lose the weight.
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