Brain Structure & Hormones
The release of this neurotransmitter aides with neurochemical modulation which occurs when children 'win' an intrinsically reinforcing Granny's Wacky Prize.
What is Dopamine?
PAX Vision helps to operationally define peace, productivity, health, and happiness in the classroom. PAX Vision is this TYPE of kernel.
What is a Relational Frame Kernel?
PAX GBG is built fully on the model of fundamental conditions needed to foster prosocial behavior and prevent diverse mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.
What is a Nurturing Environment?
The shared belief that individuals within the group are trustworthy and free from emotional or physical danger.
What is psychological safety?
This data tracks inattentive, unproductive, and disruptive classroom behaviors and is used is used by partners and teachers to discuss progress of pax in the classroom.
What is Spleem Counts or Spleem data?
This brain chemical is responsible for mood. It is increased by greater perceived safety and, with decreased function, results in mental or behavioral impulsivity, aggression and or self-harm.
What is Seratonin?
These physiological kernels directly affect the brain by increasing or decreasing specific physiological states of the body.
What are GWP?
What is PAX Breath?
This behavior is socially defined as 'unwanted' depending on the context, which can include inattentive, non-productive, disruptive, but not "BAD" behavior.
What is Problematic behavior or a SPLEEM?
What is Psychological Flexibility?
This game utilizes PAX stix and Granny's Wacky prizes to select one student who has a chance to win a wacky prize for the entire class.
What is Mystery PAX Player Mini-Game?
Moderate amounts of this hormone actually sharpens attention but high levels causes reactive responses such as fight, flight, or freeze.
What is adrenaline?
Utilizing these types of kernels after an effective behavior occurs helps the brain to learn complex behaviors requiring the gas pedal or brake pedal in the brain.
What are Reinforcement Kernels?
What are Tootles?
What are Granny's Wacky Prizes?
A practice or principle supported by high-quality experimental studies published in peer-reviewed journals.
What is Evidence-Based?
As partners we typically focus on 10 of these fundamental units of behavioral influence.
What are kernels?
This little game allows teachers to provide intermittent reinforcement for on-task PAX behaviors during instructional activities that have been particularly problematic for students in the past.
What is PAX Timer Surprise?
The part of the lower brain that is responsible for both Fear or Threat reactions AND Approach responses that result in prosocial behaviors and lower stress hormones and lower blood pressure.
What is the amydala?
Included in this type of kernels are PaX Quiet, Beat the Timer, and PAX Voices, which are intended to be used before purposeful or desired behaviors.
What are antecendent kernels?
The ability to modulate and monitor one's own behaviors with little to no support or supervision.
What is self-regulation?
The ability to self-regulate with peers, teachers, or other adults in a social context.
What is Co-Regulation?
These jobs provide students with a greater sense of responsibility for their class and free up teacher time for other tasks.
What are PAX Roles?
This protein in the brain promotes neural connections found in the brain, thereby affecting long-term memory, which is affected by PAX GBG in studies.
What is Brain-Derived Neurotropic factor or BDNF?
Name three of the four kernels specifically designed to reduce or minimize toxic influences such as low trust and reliability of others, bullying, aggression, and trauma.
What are PAX Quiet, PAX Hands, PAX Breath, PAX Stix
This predictive kernel is ONLY successful when paired with the three cues to identify expected behaviors, provide praise and non-emotional reminders, and collaboratively compare actual performance of specific task within environment. Name the kernel and the three cues.
What is PAX Vision, Predict, Monitor and reflect?
A principle of reinforcement which states that an opportunity to engage in intrinsically rewarding behaviors or activities will reinforce behaviors that are less preferred.
What is the Premack Principle?
This is used to calm intense emotions or anxiety OR following physical activity, all of which are physiologically paired with rapid shallow breathing, muscle tension and increased heart rate.
What is PAX Breath?