Introduction to BMOD!!!

Question 1

In 1988, the Harvard School of Public Health started the “Harvard Alcohol Project (HAP), what was is??

Answer 1

It was a campaign to promote the new social concept of “designated driver (dd)”

Question 2

HAP lobbies TV networks, shows, etc to promote the concept, from 1991 and 1998, what percentage of Americans had served as a DD driver

Answer 2

37% - 53%

Question 3

The Harvard Alcohol Project is an example of what?

Answer 3

A “Modeling Prompt”

Question 4

What are the 2 types of ‘behaviour”

Answer 4

Overt Behaviour = objectively measurable (observable by others)
-verbal-using language, or motor- using the body

Covert Behaviour = not observable by others, also called “private events”
- like thoughts and feelings

Question 5

What is a Target Behaviour

Answer 5

a behaviour to be modified (changed)

Question 6

What is a “Response” and a “Response Class”

Answer 6

Response = an occurrence of a behaviour

Response Class = a group of responses with the same function (each response produces the same effect/consequences)

ex. you could drink 1 cup of water from a glass, from a bottle, or from a coconut using a straw (all results are the same)

Question 7

What is a “Repertoire”

Answer 7

the collection of all behaviours a person can perform

Question 8

What are 3 things Behaviour is NOT

Answer 8

1. a personality trait (like honest, introverted)
2. A diagnostic label (depression, Bipolar disorder)
3. Products of Behaviour eg.loosing weight (there are behaviours that can help with it)

Question 9

What is the “Dead Man Test” quote (Ogden Lindsley)

Answer 9

If a dead man can do it, then it ain’t a behaviour, if a dead man can’t do it, then it is a behaviour
- Ogden Lindsley

Question 10

How can Behaviours and the Environment interact (3 ways)

Answer 10

• The environment can lead to certain behaviours
• Behaviours can effect ones environment
• Environmental consequences of a behaviour can affect subsequent behaviours

Question 11

Explain the study “how do cluttered classrooms effect students” (by Fisher, Godwin, & Seltman)

Answer 11

24 kindergarten students were placed in a decorated classroom and a sparse (plain) classroom (the independent variables)
They participated in 6 science lessons over a 2 week period.

Children were distracted 38.6% of the time in the decorated classroom compared to 28.4% in the sparse classroom

Test scores were also lower in the decorated classroom compared to the sparse classsroom (42% compared to 55%)