unit 3 Flashcards
Manipulation of environmental events prior to
the occurrence of target bx
Antecedent interventions
Generic and function-based
2 categories of antecedent interventions
Used irrespective of the maintaining
contingency (“default interventions”)
Generic antecedent interventions
Used to manipulate part of the contingency
maintaining target bx
Function-based antecedent interventions
MO effects
Discriminative effects
Contingency-breaking effects
Restrict ability to engage in bx
4 underlying mechanisms of antecedent
interventions
Alter consequence effectiveness to evoke or
abate bx
MO effects
Alter discriminative control over bx
Discriminative effects
Break/weaken the contingent relation
between problem bx & reinforcer
Contingency-breaking effects
Make it difficult or impossible to engage in
problem bx
Restrict ability to engage in bx
Antecedent effect on bx
Momentary effect
Only use as a treatment plan component
Combine with reinforcement procedures
Include EXT/punishment if needed
3 considerations of antecedent interventions
Use of structural terms
Use of non-conceptually systematic terms
Failure to identify underlying mechanisms
Failure to use generalizable effects
4 common mistakes of antecedent
interventions
Use functional rather than structural terms
Tie procedures to specific principles of bx
2 solutions to antecedent intervention
mistakes
Defined by effects on bx, other stimuli, & role
in functional relations
Functional terms
Defined by their “features”; not tied to
principles of bx
Structural terms
Setting events
Ecological variables
2 types of structural terms
A temporally remote, or extended, compound
event
Setting event
Non-discrete stimuli overlap discrete
antecedent-behavior relationships
Ecological variables
Discriminative control strategies Environmental enrichment Antecedent exercise Relaxation exercise Cushion antecedent predictors No not mention bad behavior Medical treatment Non-contingent restraints
8 generic antecedent interventions
Alters the discriminative control over
behavior
Discriminative Stimulus Control Strategies
Develop SD for prosocial bx
SDs for problem bx into SDs for prosocial bx
& SΔs for problem bx
EOs for problem bx into SDs for prosocial bx
Transfer of discriminative control
4 types of discriminative control strategies