PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Socalled, Caffeine, Multiplication Table
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17 antecedent control: rules & goals (part 2) B/c our behaviour of responding to various antecedent stimuli (people, places, words, smells, sounds, etc. ) has been reinforced, punished, or extinguished, those stimuli exert control over our behaviour whenever they occur. Treatment packages that focus on the manipulation of antecedent stimuli antecedents fall into the categories of rules, goals, modeling, physical guidance, situational inducement, and motivation. A rule describes a situation in which a behaviour will lead to a consequence. It is a statement that a specific behaviour will pay off or have a bad outcome in a particular situation. Rule can function as an sd a cue that not following the rule will lead to a punisher. Rule: a verbal stimulus describing a three-term contingency of reinforcement (antecedent-behaviour- consequence). Sometimes rules clearly identify reinforcers or punishers associated with the rules; in other cases, consequences are implied. A parent saying to a child in an excited voice wow!
