PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Functional Analysis, Reinforcement, Stimulus Control
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Week 10 july 13 th , 2015. Functional assessment: examination of the relationship between (problem) behavior and its antecedents and consequences: what are the causes of the behavior, what function is the behavior serving, various approaches can be taken. Functional analysis: systematic manipulation of environmental events to experimentally test their role in maintaining problem behavior: also referred to as experimental functional assessment, similarities with research experiments, important implication of functional analysis: Treatment should be based on the function of a behavior, not its form. E. g. , removing reinforcement for child a (attention), for child b focusing on demands placed on behavior: limitations: Completed by people familiar with the client. Form hypotheses about antecedents and consequences based on direct observation. Major causes of problem behavior: operant, respondent or elicited. Operant causes of problem behavior: positive reinforcement: social. Clues: the person approaches a caregiver, and/or smiles, just prior to the behavior. Use social attention as reinforcer for alternative behavior.
