Behaviour Change Procedures Flashcards
What is the good behaviour game
What is a behaviour trap
What is stronger negative reinforcement or positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement is stronger than positive reinforcement
because a negative reinforcement can be a strong motivator for treatment integrity
a teacher struggling with disruptive students will be motivated to implement an intervention that eliminates the problem.
A parent upset by their child’s noncompliance is motivated by negative reinforcement (elimination of the problem behavior)
how do you teach and promote reinforcer delay?
make the reinforcer visible during the delay
gradually increase the delay or time engaged in task
use conditioned reinforcer during the delay such as tokens, points, praise or verbal reminders
teach clients self-instruction or self-prompting skills “ i only have to wait a little bit more”
have a larger reinforcer and increase the delay to access it
What is an ethical issue for negative reinforcement
negative reinforcement requires the presentation of an aversive antecedent event.
The severity of the antecedent is an ethical issue
aversive stimuli can supress desirable target behaviors
negative reinforcement has similar unwanted effects as punishment and even mild aversive contingencies have an accumulated negative effect of creating escape and avoidance behaviors with prolong used.
What is the ethical concern of positive reinforcement
positive reinforcement requires a state of deprivation of the reinforcer
depending on how restrictive it is it can be an ethical issue.
wanting food, means that have to be hungry
How are chained behaviour reinforced.
They are reinforced by the consequence of each step ( conditioned reinforcement) in the form of stimuli that indicate progress through the chain
What is Tag Teaching
Tag teaching, the auditory stimulus is a conditioned reinfrocer, the click is paired with a backup reinforcer like correct.
What is a gestural prompt
movement of another person that increases the likelihood of a correct response
What is a model prompt
prompts are movement of another person that are the same as the target response
What is a Verbal Prompt
prompts are anything said, read or any verbal behaivour that increases the likelihood of a particular response
what is a physical prompts
prompts physcially guide the individual’s movements
What can stimulus prompts be conceptualized as
movement cues: touching, pointing to, tapping the correct choice
position cues: placing the correct selection closet to the student
redundancy cues - pairing one or more dimension of shape, color, size, or position with correct sleection
Why should response prompt be used
prompts are supplemental stimuli that occasion a correct response in the presence of SD
response prompts such as modeling or physical guidances enables the learner to perform the behaviour in the presence of the SD which will eventually control the behaviour given proper transfer procedures
verbal instructions can describe the contingency which may serve as a motivating operation for learners
allows learner to quickly respond and recieve reinforcement
What is a transfer of stimulus control
transfer of stimulus control is movement of control by an artifical antecedent (prompt) to the SD that the learner will come in contact with in the natural environment
what happens when prompts aren’t faded optimally
too fast - leads to termination of skills and eroros
too slow - result in prompt dependency ( stimulus overdependence)
What to do if a student become dependent on prompts
increasing salience of thr SD
fading or delaying the prompt
providing richer reinforcement for unprompted responses
What is most-to-least prompting
the initial prompt is known to occasion the behaviour.
fading after every few sessions
What is least-to-most
initial opportunity to respond independently;
higher level assistance after errors
What is graduated guidance
full guidance is provided immediately, but faded immediately contingent upon correct responding
what is time delay
prompt is provided immediately on first trials , prompt is delayed progressively allowing the learner an increasing time to respond
How to avoid prompt dependency
increasing the saliency of the SD
Fading or delaying the prompt
providing richer reinforcement for unprompted responses
What are prompts
supplemental stimuli that occasion a correct response in the presence of the Sd
What is shadowing
part of graduated guidance
teacher moving their hand near but not touching, the learner.
use for motor responses