Midterm Studying Flashcards
School Act vs Education Act
Education Act = new (moving towards)
Focus on Inclusion
Punishment to modify behaviour
Bad because
- validates using pain to control others
- provokes aggression
- causes emotional harm
Useful strategies for learned helplessness
Self-determination & growth-mindset stuff
BOATS - Can behaviour be unlearned?
yes
Strategies -how to increase control and choices
- teach to evaluate own work
- allow flexibility in schedule
- encourage to take breaks
NOT joining groups!
Prompting example
-‘inside voices’
Extinction
- form of classical conditioning
- bad behaviours can be unlearned or replaced with good behaviours
- example: quitting smoking: need to either prevent good feeling after smoking or create good feeling without smoking (patch)
- may not prevent relapse if stimulus appears
Chaining
-teaching or reinforcing a skill by breaking it down into a series of smaller tasks that begin from the simplest to the most complex. Each step or link on the line acts as a cue to the next task on the line.
- There are two types of chaining: forward and backward chaining. Forward chaining is where one starts from the beginning, linking up tasks to the end, while backward chaining is where one links up tasks from the end backwards to the beginning.
- bedtime routines
Redirection
-clap hands for attention
Response Cost
take away a good thing
how to measure progress?
provide info about Action, Context and Terms
Premack Principle
“Work first, play later”
OR…
preferred behaviours can be used as rewards for less preferred behaviours
Misbehaviour reasons
Attention/obtain
Escape/avoid
Power/control
Self-regulation/sensory stimulation
?? resilience scale
note: heavier part is the wider part of the fulcrum!
Attitude is weighted in favour of positive outcomes
Student wanders room and won’t sit down when homework being checked
Escape/avoid
3 pillars - review notes
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How much time do students lose b/c of disruptions?
up to 38 days/year (2 months!)
Which brain structure is involved with decision making, reward systems, impulse control and emotions?
the Anterior Cingulate Cortex
What kind of theory is Behaviourism (Brent Davis)
Correspondence/Conduit
Classical V operant conditioning
Classical:
- signal BEFORE behaviour (cue)
- signal is NEUTRAL (NO REWARD)
- focus on INVOLUNTARY
Operant
- signal AFTER choice
- signal is NOT neutral (reward/punishment)
- focus on changing VOLUNTARY behaviours (strengthening or weakening)
Classical conditioning is good for…
classroom routines
Operant conditioning examples
- grades
- stickers
What is generalization and why is it potentially bad?
Conditioned behaviour can become generalized to other situations - test anxiety can become pervasive
What 2 topics are associated with learned helplessness
bullying
depression
what happens in the brain when bullied?
levels of corticosterone increase (due to stress) in area of brain that processes reward stimuli (may increase risk of substance abuse)
applications of classical conditioning
- extinction
- counterconditioning
- flooding
- systemic desensitization
What is counterconditioning?
-classical conditioning strategy
-more powerful than extinction because negative stuff is involved
-create negative experience after original stimulus-response
-ex: drinking ->pleasure -> hang over
PROBLEM: often temporary
what is flooding
-form of classical conditioning
-good for phobias
-interact with fears long enough to see it’s safe
-ex; prolonged exposure to snakes if afraid of snakes
PROBLEM: mixed results: may get worse
what is systematic desensitization
-form of classical conditioning
-make an anxiety hierarchy, then do things in order
-learn to relax
-like flooding, but without the ‘trial by fire’
PROBLEM: effective, but takes a while to work
what are reinforcement schedules
rules indicating when you can have rewards
What are the 2 types of reinforcement schedules?
Continuous
partial
What kind of reinforcement works fastest
variable ratio