Behaviour Analysis

Question 1

What can behaviour analysis help us do?

Answer 1

Understand why people engage in behaviour
How to change the environment to encourage more positive behaviour

Question 2

What is the main assumption of behaviour analysis?

Answer 2

People engage in a behaviour because the outcome improves things in some way
This improvement is the function of behaviour

Question 3

What are three steps in changing behaviour?

Answer 3

1. Consider why the behaviour should be changed. Who is it benefitting and is the outcome worth the effort?
2. Identify the function of the behaviour. If want to decrease behaviour, find functionally equivalent alt behaviour
3. alter the environmental variables to make the desirable behaviour more likely and undesirable behaviour less likely

Question 4

What are motivating operations?

Answer 4

Antecedents; temporary and include physical states and emotions

Question 5

What two things do motivating operations do?

Answer 5

1. Make a consequence more reinforcing
2. Make it more likely someone will do something to achieve the consequence

Question 6

What variables impact choice to perform behaviour?

Answer 6

Rate of Reinforcement
Quality of R
Amount of R
Delay of R
Response Effort
History of R
Learning history
Novelty
Deprivation state

Question 7

Who must we not use behavioural approaches on and why?

Answer 7

Those that have experienced severe trauma - adults have let them down and control becomes a reinforcing consequence for them