What is controlled behavior. Behavior that is controlled by antecedents and consequences.
Operant Behavior
What is the primary concern across the United States? and what are the comorbidities?
Obesity.
Heart Disease, diabetes, abnormal blood flow, hight blood pressure, cancer and short life expectancy
What were the 3 categories listed in the section of the powerpoint?
Food intake
Moderation
Eating
Who were the founders of "The Food Dudes"
Bangor Food Research Company of the United Kingdom
Why is physical activity important?
Improves health and fitness, targets against obesity, and improves muscular development
What was the title of this Power Point Presentation?
ABA For Health and Fitness
By 2030 what percent of adults will be obese and what will the health care rate be?
51% and $956 annual
What is monitoring food intake important? List reasons and examples
Too much wrong food (or even an excessive amount of healthy food) can lead to heath definitives. Examples are: heart disease, diabetes and cancer
How did the program start and what was the program intentions?
Through direct observation in school cafetières - irt was basically a literally review on children diets.
The intentions were to encourage healthy eating because they found that adolescence and kids were not receiving enough nutritional foods such as fruits and veggies.
Name the system and tools that increased or had statistical significance when taking medication.
System: Pill Indigestion
Technology Tool: Medication Containers
Reinforcement: Money
What is an Antecedent?
What makes the lifestyle attractive of unattractive and the environmental factors that increase or decrease behavior.
True or False
People have greater motivation to engage in a weight loss program or regime when they are reinforced.
If true, what are the 2 most common reinforcers?
True, money and contracts are the 2 most common motivators.
Explain moderation and why it is important.
It is based on caloric intake. More calories must be burned than ingested. Sugar must be kept to a minimum to prevent unwanted health conditions.
Explain their performance: how long have they been in evaluation and how many schools have they been used in?
Evaluation snce 1992
Used in 200 schools with government support
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What is a consequence?
Contingent or Non-Contingent
Occurrence or Non-Occurence of the Behavior (a delivery system
Tangible or non-tangible
Positive or Negative
Why are we likely to see behavior change in individuals trying to loose weight?
Because it is rigorous and progressive
Eating is essential of life.
Eating is automatic
Eating is difficult to track because it is automatic
What was the group main principals and explain the reasonings.
Modeling, Exposure and Positive Reinforcement
Exposure - children would be exposed to other children eating healthy foods. When healthy foods are chosen and eating, children were verbally pranced for their choice.
Explain Intervention and name some examples
Name all 4 of the objectives in this Power Point Presentation
Applied Behavioral Analysis for Health and Fitness
Diet and Healthy Eating
Physical Activity
Adherence to Medication and Other Medical Regiments
What is the primary decent variable in weight loss?
The weight reduction and its correlation the diet and physical activity.
True or False,
The program supported negative significance as the amount of children who ate fruits and veggies remained the same and even decrease after the program was introduced.
False, the program supported positive significance as the amount of children who ate fruits and veggies increased after the program was introduced.
Explain Assessment and give some examples.
Assessment examples: Environmental Factors, Descriptive and Functional Experiments, Predictors and Consequences, Data and Group Type