PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Applied Behavior Analysis, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Chemotherapy
6 Jan 2021
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Training animals: training, shaping, and chaining can cause animals to do remarkable things, they help with people with disabilities, law enforcement, army, etc. Human application: behaviourists believe that poor performance occurs when the environment is not providing the proper consequences to reinforce the desired behaviour. In a residential treatment centre for troubled youth. Token rewards can be turned into other reinforcers enhance academic and work performance. Receive tokens for good behaviour (doing chores properly) Goal: to save enough tokens to redeem for pizza or movie night. Applied behaviour analysis combines behavioural approach scientific method to solve problems. A program is designed to change behaviour; data is gathered throughout. Used in many aspects of life (why people do certain habits, academic performance, reducing unsportsmanlike behaviour, etc. ) Behaviourists assumed that any behaviour an organism could perform could be conditioned: conditioned animals failed to respond the way they were supposed to. Ignored the fact that behaviour is influenced by an organism"s evolutionary history.
