Exam 6: Decreasing a Behavior With Operant Extinction

What are three possible reasons for the failure of an operant extinction program?

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Describe how noncontingent reinforcement might be used to decrease challenging behavior. What is a potential limitation of this approach?

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Question 22

Operant extinction should not be applied to certain behaviors or in certain situations.What types of behaviors and situations would these be? Give an example of a behavior to which operant extinction should not be applied. Give an example of a situation in which operant extinction should not be applied.

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What is spontaneous recovery? Describe an example.

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What are three possible reasons for the failure of an operant extinction program?

Describe how noncontingent reinforcement might be used to decrease challenging behavior. What is a potential limitation of this approach?

What is spontaneous recovery? Describe an example.

Introduction

Areas of Application: an Overview

Respondent Classical, Pavlovian Conditioning of Reflexive Behavior

Increasing a Behavior With Positive Reinforcement

Increasing Behavior With Conditioned Reinforcement

Getting a New Behavior to Occur With Shaping

Developing Behavioral Persistence With Schedules of Reinforcement

Responding at the Right Time and Place: Stimulus Discrimination and Stimulus Generalization

Changing the Stimulus Control of a Behavior With Fading

Getting a New Sequence of Behaviors to Occur With Behavior Chaining

Differential Reinforcement Procedures to Decrease Behavior

Decreasing Behavior With Punishment

Establishing Behavior by Escape and Avoidance Conditioning

Respondent and Operant Conditioning Together

Transferring Behavior to New Settings and Making It Last: Generality of Behavior Change

Antecedent Control: Rules and Goals

Antecedent Control: Modeling, Guidance, and Situational Inducement

Antecedent Control: Motivation

Behavioral Assessment: Initial Considerations

Direct Behavioral Assessment: What to Record and How

Doing Behavior Modification Research

Functional Assessment of Problem Behavior

Planning, Applying, and Evaluating a Behavioral Program

Token Economies

Helping an Individual to Develop Self-Control

Approaches to Behavior Therapy: Cognitive Restructuring; Self-Directed Coping Methods; and Mindfulness and Acceptance Procedures

Psychological Disorders Treated by Behavioral and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies

Giving It All Some Perspective: a Brief History

Ethical Issues

Shaping and Schedules of Reinforcement: A Comprehensive Guide

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