PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Developmental Disability, Baby Talk
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Psyb45 chapter 7 getting a new behaviour to occur with shaping. Shaping/method of successive approximations development of a new operant behaviour by the reinforcement of successive approximations of that behaviour and the extinction of earlier approximations of that behaviour until the new behaviour occurs. 5 aspects or dimension of behaviour that can be shaped. 1 topography: spatial configuring or form of a particular response o o o o o o. Printing a word or writing the same word same response with 2 different topographies. Ex teaching a child to say mommy instead of mama. 2 frequency: number of instances that occur in a given period of time. Ex number of steps that someone walks in their exercise program. Frequency of a response may be reduced by shaping as in a bm program in which a patient with ms learned through shaping to increase the time between and decrease the frequency of bathroom visits.
