PSYB45H3 Lecture : Chapter 12.docx
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Behavioral skills training (bst) procedures: modeling, instructions, rehearsal and feedback generally used together in training sessions to help a person acquire useful skills; typically used to teach skills that ca be stimulated in a role-play context. 1. 1 teaching maria to say no to the professors. *read text(good one can use this in real life if co-workers are bossy. 1. 2 teaching children to protect themselves from abduction(kidnapping) 2. 1 modeling: correct behavior is demonstrated for the learner. Over the course of early devt, a child s beh of imitating models(provided by parents, teachers, siblings & peers) is reinforced many times in the presence of a wide variety of beh modeled by a variety of people. Factors influence the effectiveness of modeling: when the model exhibits the correct behavior, it should result in a successful outcome (a reinforcer) for the model. Model should resemble the people observing the model or have high status e. g. teacher/celebrity/sport stars.
