PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Aspirin, Applied Behavior Analysis, Reinforcement
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A functional assessment is a set of procedure by which we can identify connections between a behaviour and its antecedents and consequences. Oppositely, people in everyday life do very informal functional assessments when they try to figure out why people behave the way they do. More complete functional assessments have three outcomes: define target behaviour clearly, determine which antecedents function to produce the behavioural excess or deficit and reveal how the persons behaviour functions to produce reinforcement. Antecedents and consequenes are usually overt, can be covert too. Main purpose of f. a is to identify the consequences of the target behaviour. Studies identified four types of reinforcement: escape, attention, automatic and tangible, as maintaining the problem behviours and sometimes multiple reinforcers were involved. Escape is a form of negative reinforcement, we learn many behaviours because they end or postpone aversive circumstances (escape gets us out of something we don"t want) ex.
