PSY 1320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Stimulus Control, Reinforcement
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Examples: teaching assertiveness skills, teaching social skills to a child with autism, teaching an offensive move in soccer. Strategies to promote generalization cont: modify contingencies of reinforcement and punishment in the natural environment, must have some control over the natural contingencies (for example, in educational settings or residential treatment environments) Incorporate a variety of relevant stimulus situations in training: sample all relevant sds for the target behavior, train sufficient exemplars, general case programming. Incorporate self-generated mediators of generalization: may include self-instructions or some other behavior of the learner, may involve self-generated cues or prompts. In situ assessment: what is in situ assessment, opportunity for in situ training. Importance of in situ assessment for valid measurement of generalization. Indicators of successful treatment for problem behaviors: reduction in the problem behavior, increase in desirable alternative behaviors, generalization of the behavior changes to all relevant circumstances, increase in the quantity or quality of positive reinforcement.
