FRHD 3150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Reinforcement, Abusive Power And Control, Stimulus Control

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3150
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

Behaviours are flexible and can be changes: adaptive behaviours can be learned/strengthened, maladaptive behaviours can be weakened/distinguished. Behaviour occurs, and can be observed within a specific context: preceding event, behaviour and subsequent result (antecedent, behavior, consequence, Define the target behaviour in precise behavioural terms: definition must be objective. It is important to separate behaviour from labels/products of behaviour. Determine baseline to monitor behaviour: topography, frequency/rate, duration. Intensity: latency time between the stimulus occurring and the response. In addition to observing, antecedents and consequences are systematically changed so that the influence on the behaviour can be observed: helps to discover controlling variables, syste(cid:373)ati(cid:272)ally i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:374)te(cid:272)ede(cid:374)ts/(cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)es to see (cid:449)hat"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)olli(cid:374)g (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) A stimuli that precedes (comes before) the behaviour: controlling stimulus discriminative stimuli sd or stimulus delta (s ) How can you use antecedent control: rules, goals, modeling, physical guidance, situation inducement, motivating operations. Developing a new behaviour: fading, shaping, chaining. Fading reinforcing the same behaviour across different stimuli/contexts through successive trials.