It's All Fun and Games, until Someone Figures Out the Function of Your Behaviour
How Do You Operationally Define That?
You Mean Skinner Was Saying this Years Ago
I Don't Manipulate Others Just Their Environment
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Jonny is given a high-five by his teacher, each time he raises his hand before speaking. The rate in which Jonny raises his hand before speaking is increasing.
What is positive reinforcement.
100
Tony hits himself in the head frequently, throughout the course of the school day. He typically engages in this behaviour whether he is alone or with others. This might be the function of his behaviour.
What is sensory (automatic reinforcement).
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In order to be an effective operational definition, a behaviour must be these two of four things.
What is that it is measurable, observable, repeatable, and verifiable.
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Reinforcing successive approximations of a target behaviour.
What is shaping.
100
A procedure in which items/activities that provide equivalent stimulation to interfering behaviour are made freely and easily accessible is called
What is enriching the environment.
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Sarah is impatient, she hates waiting at red lights. If the car ahead does not immediately progress through when the light changes to green, she will blast her horn to get them moving. Sarah blasts her horn a lot...it works every time!
Negative Reinforcement
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Attention, Automatic, Escape and Access to Tangibles.
What are the 4 main functions of behaviour.
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On task behaviour.
What is student is looking at the worksheet, writing answers related to task within 3 seconds of receiving verbal directions, following known classroom routines, beginning the first step in verbal instructions within 5 seconds etc. etc.
200
The procedure of withholding/discontinuing reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior, resulting in the decrease of that behavior. For this procedure to be effective, one must identify and withhold all possible sources of reinforcement that maintain the target behavior.
What is extinction
200
This is the goal of antecedent strategies
What is to prevent interfering behaviour.
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Emma loves free choice time. If she does not get her math finished in time, she is not allowed to participate and must keep working. Emma's teacher has noticed that more and more she is getting her math work completed on time.
What is negative punishment
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This is 1 thing to consider when choosing a replacement skill/behaviour.
What is that the skill is easy to learn, easy to perform, already in the student's repertoire, or functionally equivalent.
300
This is not a behaviour: sitting in a chair, paying attention, eating an apple, printing your name.
What is paying attention.
300
Do your homework first, then you can play on the iPad is an example of this.
Premack Principle, first / then
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These are examples of antecedent strategies that can prevent escape motivated interfering behaviours.
What are schedules, priming, pre-visits, warnings.
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When Sam and Jane are playing, Jane will often grab toys from Sam. Each time this happens, Sam hits Jane. Jane has learnt her lesson and no longer grabs toys from Sam!
What is positive punishment.
400
This data collection tool can help find patterns of behaivours occurring on particular days, times of day, and different activities.
What is a scatter plot.
400
This is a reason why operational definitions are needed.
What is inter-observer agreement, data tracking, evaluating progress etc. etc.
400
Deprivation has an evocative effect on behaviour. This means that when not allowed to engage in a particular activity for an extended period of time, the student will likely do this.
What is engage in behaviours that in the past have allowed access to the activity?
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Use these to increase the likelihood that your student will provide the desired response.
What are prompts
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Colton loves the Elephant and Piggie books. Everyday before story time he begs and cries for his teacher to read the books. Colton's teacher always reads the books, as his crying really upsets her. Colton cries a lot and his teacher reads a lot of Elephant and Piggie books.
What is positive reinforcement (Colton) and negative reinforcement (teacher)
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You hypothesis that a student is breaking objects to escape work. This is a functionally equivalent behaviour that you might teach.
What is asking for a break.
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This is the length of time from instruction to preform a behaviour, to the onset of behaviour.
What is latency?
500
Reinforcement and Punishment are only defined by this.
What is the effect that they have on behaviour.
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Giving the student access to a reinforcer frequently enough that they are no longer motivated to exhibit disruptive behavior to obtain that same reinforcer.