ABC's

Our class book is called "The ABC's of Behavior Modification" by Otto MacLin and Dwight Peterson.

Section 1: Behavioral Principles
Section 1.1 - The ABCs of Behavior Modification
Section 1.2 - Contingencies: Reinforcement & Punishment
Section 1.3 - The Language of Behavior
Section 1.4 - Some Behavioral Terms
Section 1.5 - More About Behaviors

Section 2: Behavior Modification
Section 2.1 - What is Behavior Modification?
Section 2.2 - Reinforcement
Section 2.3 - Punishment
Section 2.4 - Additional Concepts
Section 2.5 - Schedules of Reinforcement

Section 3: A Look Back: Pavlov to Skinner
Section 3.1 - Thorndike
Section 3.2 - Pavlov
Section 3.3 - Classical Conditioning
Section 3.4 - Watson
Section 3.5 - Skinner

Section 4: Self Directed Behavior
Section 4.1 - Need for Self-Directed Behavior
Section 4.2 - Self-Directed Behavior Steps
Section 4.3 - Importance of Goals

Section 5: Behaviors and Antecedent
Section 5.1 - Measuring Behavior
Section 5.2 - Rule Governed Behavior
Section 5.3 - Functional Analysis of Behavior
Section 5.4 - Changing the Antecedents
Section 5.5 - Selecting a Reinforcer

More sections will be added as needed.

 

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section 2.3 - the example for positive punishment below is actually negative punishment
I did spot something that I may not have understood. In the
section of positive punishment there is an example of the brother
deleting all the itunes songs, and the aversive consequence would be
cutting the power.

Since discrimitive stimulus is a cue on what behavior to elicit I decided to use a video of a skunk.

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