PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Skills, Acronym, Circular Reasoning
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Focusing on strategies that involve the manipulation of antecedent stimuli, to influence behaviour: rules, goals, modeling, physical guidance, motivation. Rules - description of a three-term contingency of reinforcement. A situation in which a behaviour will lead to a consequence. Partial rules: do not identify all three aspects of a contingency of reinforcement; but can still control our behaviour e. g. , consequences can often be implied. Contingency-shaped behaviour vs rule-governed behaviour: contingency-shaped behaviour - behaviour that has been strengthened (or weakened) because of its immediate consequences in a particular setting. When are rules especially helpful: when rapid behaviour change is desirable, when consequences are delayed, when natural reinforcers are highly intermittent. Psyb45: behaviour modification: when behaviour will lead to immediate and severe punishment, when trial and error could be costly. Although the reinforcer identified in a rule might be delayed for an individual, there might be other immediate consequences in the interim if the individual follows (or does not follow) the rule.
