Quiz 6 Flashcards
Antecedent Control
- Antecedent stimuli are manipulated to evoke desirable behaviors, so they can be reinforced & to decrease undesirable behaviors that interfere with desirable behaviors (also known as antecedent manipulations)
- Involve the manipulation of some aspect of the physical or social environment to make a desirable behavior more likely OR make a competing/undesirable behavior less likely
Antecedent Control Procedures
- Present the SD cues for the desired behavior
- Arrange establishing operations (EO) for the desirable behavior
–E.G., providing a student with edible reinforcers before they receive lunch
- Decrease response efforts for desirable behavior
E.g., packing your workout clothes and taking them with you so you can workout right after class
Using Antecedent Control Strategies
- Reinforcement should be used w/ these strategies to increase desirable behavior
- Extinction & reinforcement should be used w/ antecedent strategies to decrease undesirable behavior
Three-term Contingency for Desirable Behavior
Three-term Contingency for Desirable Behavior
- Identify & define the desirable behavior
– Can you reduce the response effort for this behavior?
- Analyze the antecedents
–What are the SD’s?
– What EOs can be applied?
- Identify the reinforcer for the desirable behavior
– Is the reinforcer contingent on the desirable behavior? Is the reinforcer strong enough?
Three-term Contingency for Undesirable Behavior
- Identify & define the undesirable behavior
– Can you increase the response effort for this behavior?
- Analyze the antecedents
– What are the SD’s
- Identify the reinforcer for the undesirable behavior
– What AO’s can be applied to decrease the reinforcers strength? What AOs can be applied?
Self-Management
When a person uses behavior modification procedures to change their own behavior
– Self management problems can involve behavioral deficits (not doing enough of something) or behavioral excesses (doing too much of something)
- A person engages in behavior at one time to control the occurrence of another target behavior at a later time
– Person engages in a controlling behavior (self-management) to control the future occurrence of a behavior
Types of Self-Management
Goal setting & self-monitoring
- Goal setting: writing down the criterion level of the target behavior & the time frame for the occurrence of the behavior
– Goals should be achievable
- Self monitoring: record each instance of the target behavior as it occurs
- Antecedent manipulations
- Behavioral Contracting: Written document in which you identify the target behavior & arrange consequences contingent on a specific level of the target behavior in a specific time frame
– Contract manager: person who applies the consequence
- Identify/define the target behavior, establish data collection method, define the criterion level of the target behavior needed, arrange the contingencies & contact manager
Types of Self-Management
Arrange reinforcers & punishers
- Can arrange reinforcers & punishers to be implemented by yourself (short-circuiting is an issue)
- Another person is also an option
Social support
– Occurs when significant others in a person’s life provide a natural context or cue the occurrence of a target behavior OR person is naturally provide reinforcement for the behavior
Self-instruction & self-praise
- Tell yourself what to do & how to do it
Self-praise: positive evaluation of your own behavior
Steps In Self-Management Plan
- Make the decision to engage in self-management
- Define the target behavior and competing behaviors
- Set goals
- Self-monitor
- Conduct a functional assessment
–Determine antecedent & consequences of the target behavior - Choose appropriate self-management strategies
- Evaluate change
- Re-evaluate self-management strategies
- Implement maintenance strategies
