PSYB45H3 Chapter 1: Behaviour Modification - Chapter one detailed notes
24 Mar 2011
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It is not static if you say a person is angry you have not defined the behaviour, you have simply labelled it if you say what that person does or says when angry then you have identified behaviour. I screamed at my bother ran upstairs and slammed the door. Frequency : number of times it has occurred ex, bit fingernails 12 times in class: duration : time from when behaviour starts and stops ex, jogged for 25 minutes. Intensity : physical force ex, bench pressed 220 pounds: behaviours can be observed, and described by others or the person doing it therefore it can be recorded since it is an action. Behaviours can have both impacts (other people and ourselves) since behaviour is an action that involves movement through time and space. Behaviour is lawful: its occurrence is systematically influenced by the environmental events.
