PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reinforcement
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Treatment process: decreasing problem behaviors: identify and define target behavior(s, to decrease and increase from interview and observation, initiate data collection, complete functional assessment, hypotheses about antecedents and consequences, develop and implement treatment, evaluate effectiveness and implementation fidelity. Behavioral model: behavior is influenced by antecedents and consequences a b c, consequences: reinforcement, extinction, punishment, antecedents: sd, s-delta, mo (eo or ao, behavior is influenced by competing behaviors (concurrent operant, desirable behaviors vs undesirable behaviors. Functional assessment: what to assess: antecedents: sds s s mos (eos and aos, when, where, with whom, what circumstances or situations does the behavior occur, social and environmental antecedents. Functional assessment: what to assess: behavior, problem behavior, alternative behavior, response effort. Categories of reinforcement (functions of problem behaviors: there are four categories of reinforcement, social positive reinforcement, social negative reinforcement, automatic positive reinforcement, automatic negative reinforcement.
