PSYB45H3 Chapter 16: Chapter 16.docx
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Functional assessment, extinction and differential reinforcement increase desirable behaviors and decrease undesirable behaviors. Functional assessment procedures are used to indentify the antecedents and consequences that maintain the desirable and undesirable target behaviors. Extinction procedures, reinforcer for an undesirable behavior is removed. Differential reinforcement reinforcers are delivered for alternative desirable behaviors for the absence of the problem behavior or for a lower rate of the problem behavior. Antecedent control procedures a. k. a antecedent manipulations = antecedent stimuli are manipulated to evoke desirable behaviors, so that they can be differentially reinforced and to decrease undesirable behaviors that interfere with the desirable behaviors. Marianne got ds and fs in most of her classes, so she then talked to her counselor. Every time, she started studying the night before a test as a result she panicked when she had to take tests and stayed up all night studying and trying to catch up. Counselor though that antecedent control procedures would help marianne study more.
