FRHD 3150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Behavior Management, Goal Setting, Reinforcement

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3150
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

Because our behavior of responding to various antecedent stimuli (people, places, words, smells, sounds) have been reinforced, punished or extinguished, those stimuli exert control over behavior. Treatment packages that focus on the manipulation of antecedent stimuli (antecedents) fall into categories: rules, goals, modeling, physical guidance, situational inducement and motivation. In behavioral terminology, rules are verbal stimuli that control behavior because they specify consequences of speciic behavior in speciic situations: not all consequences of behavior in speciic situations have descriptive verbal stimuli associated with them. Nonverbal cues such as a mother giving her son a look when he is doing something undesirable in the future he will avoid that behavior without actually learning a spoken rule from his mother. This is referred to as contingency-shaped behavior: behavior that develops because of its immediate consequence rather than because of a speciic statement or rule: rule-governed behavior: behavior controlled by the statement of a rule.