PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Multiple Sclerosis, Reinforcement, Intellectual Disability
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Getting a new behaviour to occur with shaping: procedure of shaping, specify the final target behaviour. Identify a response that could be used as a starting point in working toward the final target behaviour: reinforce the starting; then reinforce closer and closer approximations until eventually the final target behaviour occurs. Frank walking around the house: when this initial response is occurring at a high frequency, the behavior modifier stops reinforcing it and begins reinforcing a slightly closer approximation of the final target behavior. In this way, the final target behavior is eventually established by reinforcing successive approximations to it. Topography shaping occurs, for example, when teaching a child to switch from a printing response to a writing response: frequency: Lengthening the time spent studying before taking a break: latency: Latency is the time between the occurrence of a stimulus and the response evoked by that stimulus: common term for this category s reaction time.
