CHYS 3P47 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Classical Conditioning, Task Analysis
23 Nov 2016
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Changing the stimulus control of a behavior with fading. Fading - gradual change over successive trials of an antecedent stimulus that controls a response so that the response eventually occurs to a partially changed or completely new antecedent stimulus. A planned antcendent stimulus or event that controls a response. A prompt gets the behavior to occur in the correct situation so the learner gets the reinforcer. It is not the final target stimulus to control the behavior. Most-to-least prompting = start with all possible prompts needed for the child then slow decrease the amount of prompts used. Add a verbal cue (verbal first & hand second) Practise the new behavior in other locations (phased out) Back to original setting to apply what was taught/learned. Errorless learning - use of a fading procedure to establish a stimulus discrimination so that no errors occur. If they make mistakes, they will get discouraged (self-injurious/tantrum behaviors)
