Maintenance and Stimulus Control Flashcards
ways to achieve maintenance
reinforcement
- thin the schedule
- intermittent schedules of reinforcement
- progress to naturally occurring reinforcement
- behavior trap
- use indiscriminable contingencies (learner does not know when they are going to be reinforced)
avoid punishment or extinction in process
train loosely
self-management strategy
occasionally probe and teach maintenance skills
Stimulus Control
when the rate, latency, duration or amplitude of a response is altered in the presence of a stimulus
behavior occurs more often in the presence of a Sd than its absence
behavior occurs less often in the presence of Sdelta
Stimulus generalization
a general tendency for stimuli similar to an Sd to evoke the same response
Discrimination Training
provide reinforcement in the presence of one stimulus but not in the presence of another
- social behavior
- language development
- reading
- following directions
Simple Discrimination
a stimulus only functions as an Sd
- touching blue always results in reinforcement
Conditional Discrimination
a stimulus functions as Sd and S delta
- touching blue only results in reinforcement following verbal “Touch Blue”
Developing Stimulus Control and Discrimination
common approaches:
DTT, Prompting, Shaping, Chaining
