PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Intellectual Disability
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Chapter 7 getting a new behaviour to occur with shaping. Shaping used to establish a behaviour that the individual never performs. Example: parents use to teach their babies to talk. Five aspects/dimensions of behaviour that can be shaped: 1. Topography the spatial configuration of form of a particular response (i. e. the specific movements involved) Printing a word/writing the same word are examples of the same response. E(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: teachi(cid:374)g a child to sa(cid:455) (cid:862)(cid:373)o(cid:373)(cid:373)(cid:455)(cid:863) i(cid:374)stead of (cid:862)(cid:373)a(cid:373)a(cid:863: 2. Frequency the number of instances that occur in a given period of time. Example: increasing the steps (the distance) that frank walked in his exercise program and increasing the number of repetitions that a golfer practices: 3. Duration - the length of time that it lasts. Example: the lengthening the time spent studying before taking a break and gradually adjusting the duration of stirring pancake batter etc: 4.
