PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Educational Technology, Intellectual Disability, Echolalia
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Good parental behavioural methods are reinforcement and modeling. Oppositional behaviour refers to acting in a hostile and contrary manner, such as a childs frequent arguing and fighting, ignoring of rules and failing to comply with others requests. Bed wetting is called nocturnal enuresis and is defined at least twice a month after reaching five years of age. The operant program is another technique that uses the parents to wake up the children periodically during the first week or two to prevent accidents. Principles of behaviour change have been applied into educational settings. A more advanced approach of p. i is called computer assisted instruction, uses a computer to coach students through a series of lessons, much as a human tutor might do. Using student tutors is an important innovation of the psi approach. Improving classroom conduct= operant sequence of antecedent, behaviour, and consequence.
