ABSTRACT
First, the environment exerts two major types of psychological control over the people behavior—operant control and respondent control. Second, the people may not have actually said it, but by default, they have implied that that’s all there is; there ain’t no more. Third, the people also suggested that rule-governed behavior could explain the influence of indirect-acting contingencies—contingencies where the outcomes are too delayed to reinforce or punish the causal behavior. The rule statement causes noncompliance with the rule to become an aversive condition. The people behavior is always controlled by immediate reinforcers and immediate aversive consequences, for better or worse. The deadline can involve such indirect-acting aversive conditions as being cold or looking bad. So the physical world has aversive control built into it, and deadlines demand aversive control if compliance is to be achieved. However, the people can try to minimize their contact with aversive events.
