Exam 16: A: Antecedent Control Procedures

Antecedent manipulations involve the use of aversive procedures.

It is important to collect data before and after an antecedent manipulation procedure is used.​

To determine which antecedent control procedures to use in any given situation,it is helpful to understand the situation by analyzing the contingencies of reinforcement related to both the ___________ and ___________ behaviors.

Antecedent control procedures involve a change in the ___________ that evoke the occurrence of a problem behavior or the occurrence of competing behaviors to replace the problem behavior.

When Eric is at home,he spends most of his time on the Internet instead of studying.Eric disconnects his Internet access at home,so that he has to go to the campus computer cluster in order to get on the Internet.Which antecedent control strategy involves making it more difficult to engage in the problem behavior?​

Julie wants to replace drinking coffee with the alternative behavior of drinking water.Julie keeps a filled water bottle on her desk at work,and has her co-workers remind her to drink more water.In this example,Julie is using the antecedent control strategy of ____________ for desirable alternative behaviors.​

In behavior modification,an event that alters the value of a stimulus as a reinforcer is referred to as a (an):​

When Matt goes to bed at night he is unable to fall asleep because he usually takes a nap in the evening.Matt stops taking naps so that he is able to get more sleep at night.Which antecedent control strategy is Matt using to increase his desired behavior of getting more sleep at night?​

Removing the S^D,arranging abolishing operations,and increasing response effort are ways to:​

You are always finding excuses not to exercise.Identify 3 different steps you could take to increase your chances of exercising on a regular basis: How would you present the cues for exercising? How would you decrease response effort of exercising? How would you arrange an establishing operation for the outcome of exercising?

Bill wants to increase the amount of water that he drinks each day,but is having difficulty because he drinks too much pop instead.Bill gets rid of all the pop in his apartment and no longer goes down the pop aisle in the supermarket.Removing the pop and avoiding the pop aisle in the supermarket is an example of ____________ for his competing behavior.​

Antecedent control procedures are often used in conjunction with ___________.

Increasing response effort will make a behavior ____________ likely to occur.

Extinction is an antecedent control procedure.

Presenting the S^D for a behavior will make the behavior ____________ likely to occur.

A behavior that requires ____________ response effort is more likely to occur than a behavior that requires ____________ response effort.​