Basic Principles Of Behavior

Question 1

Operant conditioning

Who are the major players.

Answer 1

BF skinner - described the science of operant conditioning.

Edward Thorndike - law of effect

Question 2

Law of effect

Thorndike

Answer 2

Responses that produce rewards will increase in frequency.

- treat training.

Question 3

Operant conditioning
Manipulating antecedents
And consequences

Main principles?

Answer 3

Reinforcement
Punishment
Extinction
Stimulus control.

Question 4

Operant conditioning

What is it?

Answer 4

Learning process in which behaviour is controlled by its consequences.

The science of behaviour that explains the functional relationship between the environment and behaviour.

Question 5

Differential reinforcement

Answer 5

Doing two things at once

Combining extinction with positive reinforcement
- decreases the unwanted behaviour while increasing desired behaviour.

Question 6

Antecedent control

And steps

Answer 6

Controlling the environment so a problem behaviour will not occur

• remove cue for misbehaviour- issue causing misbehaviour. Eg garbage can
• add cue for good behaviour
• add an establishing operations for good behaviour. Eg deprivation + food reward
• remove an establishing operation for misbehaviour.
• decrease response effort for good behaviour - make it easy for him to behave
• ## increase the response effort for problem behaviour. Make it harder for him to misbehave.