SOCSCI 2UR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Functional Analysis, Eastern Orthodox Liturgical Calendar, Reinforcement

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SOCSCI 2UR3
• Professor: Mary Hume

Document Summary

Multi-element baseline design: also called alternating treatment design, operates by bringing the same behaviour under the control of several different experimental procedures, each associated with a different sd (bailey & burch, 2002, seen most often in functional analysis. When to use : suited to circumstances where several different contingency arrangements or biological variables need to be compared simultaneously, need to alternate rapidly and randomly. Terminology: functional behavioural assessment (fba, any systematic attempt to identify sources of reinforcement for problem behaviour, functional analysis (fa), use of experimental model to identify environment-behaviour interactions. Functional analysis of behaviour: purpose, goals, to identify the variables of which behaviour is a function; to discover cause- effect relationships, understanding, treatment, prevention. Learned functions of behaviour: assumptions, most behaviour problems are learned, adaptive and maladaptive behaviour have common functions, positive reinforcement (sr+, reward, social vs automatic, negative reinforcement (sr-, escape or avoidance, social vs automatic.