Introduction to Behavior Modification-Chapter 1
Identifying the functional relationship between environmental events and a particular behavior to understand the reasons for the behavior or to determine why a person behaved as he or she did
Analyzing
The scientific study of human behavior to help people change behavior in meaningful ways
Applied Behavior Analysis
What people say and do
Behavior
the applied science and professional practice concerned with analyzing and modifying human behavior
Behavior Modification
A desirable target behavior that a person seeks to increase in frequency, duration, or intensity.
Behavioral Deficit
an undesirable target behavior that a person seeks to decrease in frequency, duration, or intensity
Behavioral Excess
Developed by B. F. Skinner, basic belief that behavior is lawful and controlled by environmental events occurring in close relation to behavior.
Behaviorism
The environmental events (antecedents/consequences) that influence the probability of a particular behavior. The controlling variables are the antecedents and consequences that are functionally related to the behavior
Controlling Variables
Behavior that can be subjectively perceived only by the person performing the behavior. Thoughts and feelings.
Covert Behavior
Behavior Modification relies on past behavior as well as present to better implement a behavior plan to address them. However, current behaviors are emphasized. Past events are not the focus for the therapist, current behavior is.
De-emphasis On Past Events As Causes of Behavior
A measurable aspect of behavior
Dimensions
The time from when an instance of a behavior starting until it stops
Duration
Behavior Modification involves assessing and modifying the current environmental events that are functionally related to the behavior.
Emphasis on Current Environmental Events
The scientific study of behavior and the types of environmental events that are functionally related to the occurrence of behavior. Involves laboratory research with nonhumans and humans.
Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Behavior Modification designed to change behavior, not a personal characteristic or trait. So, behavior modification de-emphasizes labeling.
Focus on Behavior
The number of times a behavior occurs
Frequency
The guiding theory of behavioral modification is behaviorism
Guided by The Theory and Philosophy of Behaviorism
Thorndike's rule that behaviors which have that produces a favorable effect on the environment is more likely to repeated in the future.
Law of Effect
The Hallmark of Behavior Modification is its emphasis on measuring behavior before and after intervention to document the behavior change resulting from the behavioral modification procedures.
Measurement of Behavior Change
developing and implementing procedures to help people change their behavior. It involves altering the environmental events so as to influence behavior
Modifying
The physical force involved in a behavior
Intensity
The speed of a behavior from some event to the start of behavior
Latency
Behavior that has the potential for being directly observed by an individual other than the one performing the behavior.
Overt Behavior
Behavior Modification procedures involve specific changes in environmental events that are functionally related to the behavior.
Precise Description of Behavior Modification Procedures
Behavior Modification is the application of basic principles originally derived from experimental research with laboratory animals.
Procedures Based on Behavioral Principles
Behavioral Modification does not acknowledge hypothetical reasons for the cause of Behavior such as Freud's theory. They rely on natural causes of behavior
Rejection of Hypothetical Underlying Causes of Behavior
the behavior to be modified
Target Behavior
Behavior Modification procedures are developed by professionals (BCBA, Psychologists trained in Behavior Modification) and implemented by teachers, therapists, parents to help change others behavior.
Treatment Implemented By People In Everyday Life
