PSYB45H3 : PSYB45 Chapter 1-10 Detailed Chapter notes
16 Feb 2012
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Human behavior is subject matter of behavior modification. Characteristics: behavior: what people do and say. Identifies what person says or does: behaviors have one or more dimensions, frequency: number of times behavior occurs, duration: time from when instance of behavior starts until it stops. Occurrence has som e effect on environment in which it occurs. Behavior is lawful: occurrence is systematically influenced by environmental events, basic behavioral principles describe functional relationships between behavior and environmental events, principles describe how behavior is influenced by, or occurs as function of, environmental events. Behaviors may be overt or covert: most often, behavior modification procedures are used to understand and change overt behaviors, overt behavior: action that can be observed and recorded by person other than, covert behavior: private events. Not observable to others (thinking). one engaging in behavior. Involves altering environmental events so as to influence behavior.
