Behaviour Modification

Question 1

What is behaviour modification?

Answer 1

applied science and professional practise concerned with analysing and modifying overt and covert behaviour

Question 2

What does analysing involve in behaviour mod.?

Answer 2

identifying functional r/ships between environmental events and a particular behaviour to understand the reasons for the behaviour or to determine why a person behaved as he/she did

Question 3

What does modifying involve in behaviour mod.?

Answer 3

developing and implementing procedures to help people change their behaviour (altering environmental events)

Question 4

What are some of the characteristics of behaviour modification?

Answer 4

emphasis on current environmental events, precise description of target behaviour and procedures, measurement of behaviour change, de-emphasis on past, rejection of hypertheticals, behavioural principles, guided by theory

Question 5

Who created the foundation for behaviour modification?

Answer 5

BF Skinner

Question 6

What are the three branches of behavioural analysis?

Answer 6

behaviourism, experimental behavioural analysis, applied behaviour analysis

Question 7

What are the 7 dimensions of applied behaviour analysis?

Answer 7

applied, behavioural, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic, effective, generalisability