PSYC 3451 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Backward Chaining, Forward Chaining, Task Analysis
29 Mar 2016
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Many new behaviors that you might want to build are a series, or chain, of behaviors. A behavior chain is a series of related behaviors that produce reinforcement. Behavior chain: a sequence of related behaviors, each of which provides the cue for the next, and the last of which produces a reinforcer. Actually, almost everything we do can be considered as part of a behavior chain. I. e. even tying your shoes is comprised of series of separate acts that each is linked to the previous act. Chaining: each step in a behavior chain serves as cue for the next step. You could even think of a behavior chain as series of signals and behaviors: the completion of one behavior in a chain produces the signal for the next action. Practically any complex behavior you can think of can be thought of as a behavior chain. The procedure for building chains is also important, this is called chaining .
