Behaviour 101
Behavior is shaped through the stimulus change that immediately follow it
Operant Behavior
Focuses on socially significant behaviours
Applied
Why should reinforcement occur immediately?
Because other behaviors may occur in between that may be inadvertently reinforced instead.
What are the two effects of MOs?
Behavior altering and value altering
Using 'number of dirty garments on the floor' as a measure
Permanant Product
A child mands more in the clinic than at home - behaviour goes where reinforcement flows
Matching Law
Clearly defines procedures and interventions
Technological
This generates a slow to moderate rate of responding that is constant and stable. There are few, if any post-reinforcement pauses.
Fixed Ratio
Oxygen, Water, Activity, Food, Sleep are all
Unconditioned motivating operations
Procedures for detecting and recording the number of times a behavior is observed
Event Recording
"Change in environment precede elicited behavior" is an example of _________ ________.
Respondent Behavior
The world is lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events
Determinism
You have targeted sucking thumb as target behavior interfering with vocalizations. You design an intervention in which you reinforce (provide social attention to) the learner for manipulating toys and objects, having his hands anywhere other than his face, and engaging in learning tasks with his hands. This is an example of what?
DRI
I need to find a key to open a lock
Conditioned Motivating Operations - Transitive
FAI, QABF, Open Ended Interview, BPI-S are all examples of what?
Indirect assessment
What is rule-governed behavior?
A person states a rule which alters the future probability of other behavior occurring.
The practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations, experimentally or conceptually before considering more complex and abstract explanations
Parsimony
A person doesn't have to be aware of the reinforcement contingencies for it to be reinforcing to their behaviour
Automaticity of Reinforcement
Stimulus has been paired with UMO and evokes the same response
CMO-S
The time lapsed between stimulus and response
latency
"Julie will not engage in disruptive behaviour" would not pass
the dead mans test
Targeting 'anxiety' as a behaviour of concern would be a violation of one of the seven dimensions
Behavioural
In this procedure, the alternative communication response produces the same reinforcer that has been maintaining problem behaviour
Functional Communication Training
A kid kicking over his table to escape the classroom after seeing his most hated teacher walk in
Conditioned Motivating Operation - Reflexive
A more ethical way to complete Functional Analysis
Practical Functional Analysis - Greg Hanley