PSYB51H3 Lecture Notes - Stimulus Control, Flight Controller
19 Nov 2012
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Waters and colleagues did experiment on 2 autistic kids, baseline was visual sc hedules (had 2 take a card w/ picture of action, they had. 2 take this picture 2 where they wer suppsed 2), they were still very disobedien t so tokens were implemented 2 provide motivation. Engaging in something for a specific amount of time before reinforcement (prema ck principle) Response effort (taking away reinforcer eg. hiding remote so cant watch tv) Ac(antecedent) procedures: antecedent stimuli are manipulated to evoke a desira ble response to make competing undesirable behvr less likely (basically manipulating physical or social environment) They"re based on functional assessment info and alter environment in advance of target behvr, its one of 3 functional nonaversive interventions, they address antecedents rather than consequences but do address consequences indirectly thru manipulation of establishing operations. Before using ac procedures, u need 2 analyze 3 term contingency for desirable b ehvr, and identify competing behvrs that mite interfere.
