CHYS 3P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Token Economy, Tantrum, Reinforcement

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 3P91
• Professor: Tricia Vause

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Aba refresher de nitions: positive reinforcement: present motivating stimulus to make a person more likely to elicit the behaviour. ex. You let someone merge into your lane, someone waves and smiles. Makes you more lily to let someone in: conditioned reinforcement: stimulus that wasn"t there before becomes a reinforcer for a particular behaviour. Token economy, mother"s praise: operant extinction: withholding of a reinforcer when and unwanted behaviour is elicited. Important to look at the function of the behaviour. ex. ignoring a tantrum that is happening for social attention: behavioural assessment: the measurement of the target of behaviour, antecedents. Used in behaviour assessments to determine certain behaviours to attend to: differential reinforcement look up in textbook, shaping: target behaviour does not exist. Rewards steps that go toward the goal behaviour. ex. Trying to get someone to throw a ball: stimulus discrimination: a response that occurs than sd not s .