Final Flashcards
principles of discrimination
ability to tell the difference between environment events or stimuli
stimulus control
a behavior that occurs in the presence of S but not its absence
Antecedents
environmental conditions and events that precede the behavior
simple discrimination
differentiating
-with practice should reliably respond correctly
discriminative stimuli S^D
condition under which we want behavior to occur
s-deltas
anything other than S^d
discrimination training steps
- identify target behavior
- identify stimulus to be established
- plan reinforcement strategy
prompt
additional stimuli that increases the probability that the S will occasion the desired response
-always move from most to least intrusive
prompt types
- gestural
- verbal
- visual
- modeling
- physical
gestural prompts
using movement and motions to give reminder
verbal prompts
A. rules- “no running in the halls”
B. instruction- “put your name on top of the paper”
C. hints
D. self operated verbal prompts
visual prompts
A. pictures
B. color code for work rate
C. classroom schedule
D. maps
visual prompts- pictures
- correctly completed problems
- format for a report
- books of pictures
- hand washing pictures at restaurants
modeling prompts
demonstration- imitation must be possible
physical prompts
A. full- “put through” physically do with child
B. partial
effective prompting
- focus students attention on S^D
- should be as non-intrusive as possible
- fade as rapidly as possible
- unplanned prompts should be avoided
task analysis
breaking complex behavior into components
-completion of each step is the S^D to the beginning of the next step
task analysis steps
- determine prerequisite skills
- list materials that will be needed
- list all components in order of performance
chaining
- teacher establishes a series of chain of behavior
- instructional procedure of reinforcing individual responses in sequence to form complex behavior
forward chaining
begins with first step and adds in others in order
- ex: shoe tying
backwards chaining
components are taught from last step to first step
- reinforcer is given at the most natural point -> the end of task
- ex: helping student learn to put on their pants, start with them buttoning pants and move backwards
fading procedures
- decreasing assistance
- graduated guidance
- time delay -> give students more tome to respond
- increasing assistance
shaping
- differential reinforcement for successive approximations of behavior
- used to teach new behavior
must be able to identify for antecedent procedures
- terminal behavior -> behavioral goal
- initial behavior -> in students repertoire
- intermediate behavior
- dimensions
- things to think about
- size of steps
- how long to stay at each plateau