PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Seat Belt, Stimulus Control, Intellectual Disability
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Involves manipulating some aspect of the physical or social environment to evoke a desired response or to make a competing, undesirable behavior less likely. Presenting the discriminative stimulus (sd) or cues for the desired behavior one reason that a desirable behavior may not occur often is that the sds for the behavior are not present in the person"s environment. If healthy food is not present, we can"t eat it. Removing the discriminative stimulus or cues for undesirable behaviors. One way to decrease likelihood of an undesirable behavior is to remove the antecedent conditions that have stimulus control over it. If sd/cues for undesirable behavior are not present, it is less likely for person to engage in behavior. If you can make outcome of undesirable behavior less reinforcing, you will be less likely to engage in behavior and therefore more likely to engage in desirable behavior.
