PSYB45H3 Chapter : Textbook#13
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Focus on behavioral procedures for understanding problem behaviors and increasing and decreasing existing behaviors. To understand why the person engages in the behavior, you must conduct an assessment of the three-term contingency to determine the antecedent events the evoke the behavior and the reinforcing consequences that maintain it. Operant behavior is controlled by antecedents and consequences that make up three-term contingencies of reinforcement and punishment. Functional assessment is the process of gathering information about the antecedents and consequences that are functional related to the occurrence of a problem behavior provides information that helps you determine why a problem behavior is occurring. Process of identifying these variables before treating a problem. The info on the three-term contingency will help you to identify the behavior is called fundamental assessment . Examples of functional assessment antecedents that have stimulus control over the behavior and the reinforcing consequences that maintain the behavior.
