PSYB45H3 : Textbook notes
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Ch 13-psyb45: all about helping a person increase a desirable behavior or decrease an undesirable behavior, the first step is to understand why the person engages in the behavior. To do so you must conduct an assessment to determine the events that evoke the behavior and the reinforcing consequences that maintain it. Identify these variables before treating a problem behavior is called functional assessment: the treatment helped jacob replace the undesirable behavior with a desirable behavior. The treatment helped jacob replace the undesirable behavior with a desirable behavior. Conducting a functional assessment is always the first step in using behavior modification procedures to decrease problem behaviors. To identify the function of the problem behavior: functional assessment. Four broad classes of reinforcing consequences or functions of problem behavior: Positively reinforcing consequence is delivered by another person after the target behavior, it is called social positive reinforcement.
