PSYB45H3 Chapter 16: Antecedent Control Procedures
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Antecedent control procedures- antecedent stimuli are manipulated to evoke desirable behaviours, so that they can be differentially reinforced, and to decrease undesireable behaviours that interfere with the desirable behaviours. The sd for eating healthy foods is the presence of healthy foods in the kitchen. If they are not present, the person is less likely to eat/or go out and get them. Going without food for a day is an establishing operation that makes food more reinforcing and therefore evokes the behaviours of getting and eating food: ex. Decreasing response effort for the desirable behaviour: arrange antecedent conditions such that less effort is needed to engage in the behaviour, ex. If you like coke and pepsi equally, you are more likely to drink a pepsi from your refrigerator than to drive to the store to get a coke. You choose the behaviour that takes less response effort. These 3 strategies all focus on manipulating antecedents to the desirable behaviour.
