PSYB45H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1- introducing applied behaviour analysis-1.docx
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What is not behaviour: we tend to focus on broad characteristics to describe a person"s behaviour because they provide a convenient and efficient way of communicating a lot of information. Ex: adjectives don"t describe behaviour such as smart : broad characteristics are imprecise- they don"t tell us specifically what we wud need to change to improve a person"s behaviour. Hence the more precise we are in describing the behaviour to be changed, the more successful we are likely to be in measuring and improving the behaviour. In clinical practice, therapists generally use diagnosis to classify clients. However the diagnoses are similar to using traits: they do not indicate what specific behaviours need to be changed: outcomes of behaviours are not behaviours. Inborn behaviours are called reflexes. > are inherited: two reflexes: rooting reflex: baby turns head towards an object that lightly touches its cheek.
