Psychology 1100E Lecture 14: Psych 1100E, Lecture #14, Behaviour Modification

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1100E
• Professor: Dr. Chung

Document Summary

Making reinforcers contingent on some target behaviour. E. g. allowance can be made contingent on a tidy room. E. g attention can be made contingent on eye contact. Ivor lovas used reinforcement to gain eye contact and then teach language to autistic children. Some may say that it is dehumanizing. Tangible conditioned reinforcers are made contingent on a variety of behaviours. Tokens then exchanged for a variety of primary reinforcers. You can have multiple behaviours that earn multiple amounts of money. Addictive behaviours can be brought under stimulus control. E. g smoking is associated with many activities and situations. So, limit smoking to particular times and places. E. g smoke only on the back porch at midnight. Cravings for cigarette will occur only there and then. The radial maze has been used to study working memory in various species of animals. Rats, and other animals, make only about one re-entry in the first eight selections.