PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Developmental Disability, Junk Food, Stimulus Control
23 Jun 2011
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When an establishing operation is present, the behaviour that results in that stimulus is evoked (more likely to occur). Cal removed the sd for eating unhealthful foods by getting rid of all the unhealthy foods from his apartment. purchasing and eating junk food when grocery shopping: food shopping only after eating beforehand www. notesolution. com. a child with profound developmental disability engages in sib which is reinforced by attention: provide non-contingent attention. Increasing the response effort for undesirable behaviours: other strategy for decreasing the likelihood of an undesirable competing behaviour is to increase the response effort for the behaviour. If the competing behaviours take more effort, they are less like to interfere with the desirable behaviour: example: going to health club to run during a lunch hour increases effort it would take to nap instead. eliminating the sd or cues for the problem behaviour. providing the sd or cues for desirable alternative behaviours www. notesolution. com: manipulating establishing operations:
