PSYC 154 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stimulus Control, Observational Learning
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Chapter 10 notes- prompting and transfer of stimulus control. Prompting- cue that helps you pay attention to contingency. Hint for what to expect or how to respond. Includes look at me and follow what i do , verbal directions, or physically instruct person. Used to develop stimulus control (to get right behavior to occur at the right time- in presence of the sd) Situation is new and subject doesn"t know how to respond. First step of bringing someone into a new environment. Ex) teaching someone to hit baseball (first would show them how to hold bat) *potential drawback if person has disability (cannot communicate), they may not understand prompt. People who know more about how to do something than the subject. Makes teaching/training more efficient (because it takes out trial and error process) Prompt- an antecedent stimulus or event that controls a response. A prompt gets behavior to occur in the correct situation so the behavior can be reinforced.
