PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Vending Machine, Reinforcement
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Helen was a psychiatric patient who had been hospitalized for several years before. Teodoro ayllon and jack michael conducted a simple intervention to reduce her problem behavior off psychotic talk which refers to making statements based on delusional (false) beliefs the psychotic talk was reinforcing it. She has been making these statements from 3 years. Observations of helen behaviors suggested that people seeming to pay attention to. In this chapter we look at a method of extinction to decrease behavioral excesses. It is a process whereby the rate and force in performing the no-longer. Reinforcers may occur and reinstate the behavior negative reinforcement. If we don"t control the source of reinforcement very carefully, extraneous. To start an extinction procedure for a target behavior we must identify what the. Extinction can apple to behaviors that have been received either positive or. In reducing helen"s psychotic talk the nurse used the procedure of extinction when.
