PSYC 4030 Study Guide - Final Guide: Headache, Silent Treatment, Reinforcement

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4030
• Professor: Sharon Armstrong

Document Summary

B = treatments aba is also a short form for applied behavioural analysis. The aba study provides evidence that the therapy was responsible for changes in behaviour. It describes the tempora; sequence of antecedents, behavioural and consequences model of behavioural. = the thing that happens a and c are the things that caused he thing that happens (things that caiuse th ebehaviour) The specific antecedents and consequences that cause an individual to perform a behaviour is its maintaining conditions. It"s a cycle of antecedents -> behaviour -> consequences -> which lead to expecting consequences again, antecedetns which set the conditions for behaviour, which results in consequences, while influencing whether the behaviour will reccur. Mainitaing conditions specific antecedents and consequences that cause an individual to perdom a behaviour behaviour theraoy treats problem behaviours by directly changing their maintaining conditions. In order to identify the conditions, you first have to identify all antecedents and consequences of.