PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Toilet Training, Applied Behavior Analysis
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Overt behaviours: visible to others, can be easily observed and recorded by others. Covert behaviors: private, internal, cannot be easily observed by others (ex. feelings and thoughts) Behavioural deficits: too little of a particular type of behaviour. Behavioural excesses: too much of a particular type of behaviour. Treatment procedures and techniques focus on ways of altering an individual"s current environment to promote better functioning. Focus on various factors (including individual"s own behaviours) that are contributing to current problematic behaviour. Methods and rationales can be described precisely. Techniques are often applied by people in everyday lives. Ex. new year"s resolution, parenting, coaching, quitting smoking, changing eating habits. Techniques stem from basic and applied research in science of learning. Draw on principles or operant and pavlovian conditioning. Emphasizes scientific demonstration that specific intervention was responsible for a particular behaviour change. High accountability is placed on everyone involved in bm programs.
