PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Formant, Reinforcement, Headbanging

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Functional assessment: to help increase or decrease behaviour, it must be understood why the person engages in the behaviour. To do so, you must conduct an assessment of the three-term contingency to determine the antecedent events that evoke the behaviour and the reinforcing consequences that maintain it. Identifying these variables before treating problem behaviour is its definition. Behaviour: jacob bangs his head, whines and throws toys. Outcome: jacob is more likely to engage in head-banging, whining, and toy-throwing when other children play with his toys. Consequence: the kids return jacobs toys to him. Outcome: jacob is more likely to ask for his toys back when other children play with them. The treatment used differential reinforcement to increase desirable behaviour and decrease undesirable behaviour. Defining functional assessment: a process of gathering information about the antecedents and consequences that are functionally related to the occurrence of a problem behaviour. It provides information that helps you determine why a problem behaviour is occurring.

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