PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Starting Pistol, Reinforcement, Baby Talk
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Specify the final target behavior, reinforce the starting behavior; then reinforce closer and closer approximations until eventually the final target behavior occurs. Identify a response that could be used as a starting point in working toward the final target behavior. Chapter 7 getting a new behavior to occur with shaping. Early retirement, 55 decided to make changes in life: long-standing habits enrolled in behavior modification course. Started exercise program after work to home beer and couch tv: pledge to wife to run quarter mile a day, after couple attempts returned to normal routine. Positive reinforcement increase frequency of a behavior given that behavior occurred occasionally: if desired behavior never occurs not possible to increase frequency by waiting then reinforcing. Shaping - used to establish a behavior that the individual never performs: reinforcing a response that occurs with frequency greater than 0 (:. resembles final target behavior)
