Recently in Self-Directed Behavior Category

Please read sections 5.4 Changing Antecedents and 5.5 Selecting a Reinforcer.

When you answer the questions below use the behavioral language you have been learning all semester.

What is the behavior you are modifying?
What are some of the antecedents to that behavior?
How might you change some of the antecedents to help change the behavior?
What are some antecedents of the behavior that might be difficult to change or have control of?
How might you avoid situations where the antecedent might be present?
What reinforcer are you going to use to modify your behavior?
What is the Premack Principle?
What are some of your high frequency behaviors that might be used as reinforcers?
What is the behavioral chain related to your behavior?
How can you reorganize or change the behavioral chain associated with your behavior?

GO AHEAD AND IMPLEMENT YOUR BEHAIORAL CHANGE.
PLEASE CONTINUE TO KEEP A RECORD OF YOUR TARGET BEHAVIOR.

Please read section 5.3 - Functional Analysis of Behavior

When you answer the questions below use the behavioral language you have been learning all semester.

What is a functional analysis of behavior?
What is the behavior that you wanted to modify from section 5.1?
What are some functions of that behavior?
Based on the notes you have been recording about the behavior, what are some of the contexts in which it occurs?
If you were to conduct an indirect assessment of your problematic behavior, how might you go about that?
How are the functions and contexts of your target behavior related?
What would be one function would your behavior have (what is your hypothesis)?
How would you use a DRO to modify your behavior?
How will you reinforce the behavior?
What intervention might you do? And how would this look in terms of the ABC's?
What type of reinforcement schedule are you going to use?

PLEASE CONTINUE TO KEEP A RECORD OF YOUR TARGET BEHAVIOR.

Please read section 5.2 - Rule Governed Behavior

When you answer the questions below use the behavioral language you have been learning all semester.

What is rule governed behavior?
What behaviors do you have that are rule governed?
What rule governed behavior do you have that you might want to modify?
What are the ABC's of that behavior?
For the behavior that you would like to change based on section 5.1, what would be some rules you could implement that would make it easier to modify that behavior?

PLEASE CONTINUE TO KEEP A RECORD OF YOUR TARGET BEHAVIOR. We will be using this record in your next assignments.

Please read section 5.1 - Measuring Behavior.

When you answer the questions below use the behavioral language you have been learning all semester.

What is a behavior that you would like to change?
What are some of the functions of that behavior?
What does it look like when you do the behavior (topography)?
What context(s) does the behavior occur in/under?
How is the context related to the function of the behavior?
How would you specifically state a target behavior for this behavior?
How might you go about recording the behavior?
If you were going to change this behavior using reinforcement what would be the ABC's that you would use?

PLEASE KEEP A RECORD OF THE BEHAVIOR. We will be using this record in your next assignments.

After reading section 5.3 (I'll email that to you) conduct a functional assessment of the target behavior you have decided to use for your project.

1) State the target behavior

2) What are the antecedents to the behavior?

3) What are the consequences to the behavior?

4) How do you think the behavior is functioning? List several hypotheses as to why in the order of most liekly.

5) For the top hypothesis, what might be an intervention you might use to change the frequency of the behavior?

Let me know if you have any questions,

--Dr. M

After reading section 4.2 please do the following:

1) Write the class of behavior you are working on for your self-directed behavior project.

2) Decide on 1 behavior you are going to do to help you achieve your goal. This will be the behavior you will be writing down / recording and graphing.

3) Write the behavior as a specific target behavior.

4) State why it is a good target behavior - i.e., how does it fit the requirements of a good target behavior?

5) State how you are going to quantify the behavior - i.e., how are you going to graph the behavior? What will the label on the y-axis of your graph say?

Don't start recording your behavior just yet.

By now you should have read section 4.1 and you should have posted a behavioral class you want to use for your self-directed behavior. If you have not - go back and do this first.

For this post I would like to 1) post the behavioral class you are going to use, and 2) list at least 3 target behaviors you might help  you to achieve your behavioral goal (either reinforce or punish - doens;t matter right now).

Notice in my comment that I haven't given very specific target behaviors - we will go over these again later - for now just put down some behaviors that will help yyou achieve your desired behavior.

When you are done with this section you can read 4.2 which will be due on Tuesday week #8.

Please read the email I sent out before starting this project. If you don't have the email let me know and I'll resend it.

For this assignment simply state what class of behavior you are going to work on for your self-directed behavior project (Recall that we worked on behavioral classes in section 1.5 - go back and review if you need to).

You are not committing yourself to this behavioral class, you can change it later.

When you finish your comment - you can start on the reading sec 4.1 due Friday - http://www.psychologicalscience.com/bmod/2010/02/section-31-due-friday.html