Unit 3 Flashcards
Antecedent interventions
Manipulations of environmental events prior to the occurrence of target behavior
2 categories of antecedent interventions
Generic and function-based
Generic antecedent interventions
Used irrespective of the maintaining contingency (“default interventions”)
Function-based antecedent interventions
Used to manipulate part of the contingency maintaining target behavior
4 underlying mechanisms of antecedent interventions
MO (motivating operations) effects
Discriminative effects
Contingency-breaking effects
Restrict ability to engage behavior
MO effects (motivating operations)
Alter consequence effectiveness to evoke or abate behavior
Discriminative effects
Alter discriminative control over behavior
Contingency-breaking effects
Break/weaken the contingent relation between problem behavior and reinforcer
Restrict ability to engage in behavior
Make it difficult or impossible to engage in problem behavior
Momentary effect
Antecedent effect on behavior
3 considerations of antecedent interventions
Only use as a treatment plan component
Combine with reinforcement procedures
Include extinction/punishment if needed
4 common mistakes of antecedent interventions
Use of structural terms
Use of non-conceptually systematic terms
Failure to identify underlying mechanisms
Failure to use generalizable effects
2 solutions to antecedent intervention mistakes
Use functional rather than structural terms
Tie procedures to specific principles of behavior
Functional terms
Defined by effects on behavior, other stimuli, and role in functional relations
Structural terms
Defined by their “features”; not tied to principles of behavior
2 types of structural terms
Setting events
Ecological variables
Setting event
A temporally remote, or extended, compound event
Ecological variables
Non-discrete stimuli overlap discrete antecedent-behavior relationships
8 generic antecedent interventions
Discriminative control strategies Environmental enrichment Antecedent exercise Relaxation exercise Cushion antecedent predictors Do not mention bad behavior Medical treatment Non-contingent restraints
Discriminative Stimulus Control Strategies
Alters the discriminative control over behavior
4 types of discriminative control strategies
Develop discriminative stimulus (Sd) for prosocial behavior
Discriminative stimulus (Sd) for problem behaviors into discriminative stimulus for prosocial behavior and SΔs for problem behavior
EOs (establishing operations) for problem behavior inter Sds for prosocial behavior
Transfer of discriminative control