PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Insect Bites And Stings, Systematic Desensitization, Reinforcement
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Functional assessment procedures: functional assessment: a variety of procedures for attempting to identify antecedents and consequences for problem behaviours. Then a treatment plan based on these hypotheses is devised and implemented: if the treatment is successful, the descriptive analysis is validated. Or were they self-reinforcing: to gure this out experimentally, behaviour modi ers examined the behaviour over several sessions. Using an attention condition, they provided attention for the behaviour. Using a demand condition, they provided educational tasks to susie at a rate of one every 30 seconds. Major causes of problem behaviours: these causes can be divided into two categories: operant and respondent or elicited. Problem behaviours maintained by self-stimulatory positive reinforcement: behaviours are often reinforced by the sensory stimulation they produce. The case of face scratching: sarah scratched when smiling, when upset, when interacting with others, when alone, and whether or not demands were placed on her. Over time, she stopped playing with the jewelry altogether.
