Overview
Description
Methods of behavioral interventions for decreasing aberrant behaviors and increasing adaptive behavior (e.g. antecedent manipulations, extinction, differential reinforcement, punishment, and token economies) will be considered.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- prepare specific behavioral inerventions for reducing behaviors maintained by positive social reinforcement, Negative social reinforcement, and automatically maintained behaviors.These interventions will include acccurate description of target behaviors, use of preferred reinforcers, appropriate task analysis, appropriate shaping, fading and chaining methods, as well as manipulation of establishing operations.
- apply all of these same methods for the acquisition of desireable alternative behaviors and / or for the acqisition of new cognitive, verbal, social and ademic skills.
- indicate appropriate use when necessary of extinction, negative reinforcement , and punishment protocols.