PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Habituation, Stink Bomb
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Someone is sending too many e-mails, coming in late: training. Dog is misbehaving, peeing on carpet, play piano: interpersonal. Want husband to stop leaving clothes out, go away, stop forgetting: self-management. Methods for reducing behaviours: non-punishment methods: extinction (remove reinforcer) Functional assessment: can"t implement extinction purely based on assumptions, reinforcers differ from one person to the next (instant gratification, reinforcers can be different in different contexts, multiple reinforcers (maintain behaviour, reinforce multiple things) Automatic reinforcer (extinction may not be the way, need to use other domain to get rid of behaviour) Other may be providing the reinforcement (hard to intervene) Effectiveness of extinction: withheld all reinforcers (don"t respond, consistency (be consistent, variety of settings (do it in all different ways, instructions (tell person, differential reinforcement. Withholding reinforcement from the target behaviour and reinforcing different behavior (extinction plus reinforcing another behavior) Incompatible behavior (competing response) (can"t do both behaviours at the same time) (reinforce a different behaviour)
