Behavior modification

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Behavior modification

7th Class

Chaining, prompting, fading, extinction

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Chaining - Shaping Feedback Poi 2

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Exercise: Poi 2

•Learn to do fancy things with Poi

•Time: 5 minutes

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Chaining

• Reinforcement of successive elements of a behavior chain

• Behavior chain – sequence of related behaviors, each of which provides the cue for the next and the last produces s reinforcer

▫ E.g.tying shoes, going to school..

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Types of chaining

•Forward chaining

•Backward chaining

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Now try reading this

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Rules for chaining

•Define the target behavior

▫As a chain! – you must know in advance what sequence you will be dealing with

•Reinforce successive elements of the chain

•Monitor results

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Application and implications

•Being a playboy

▫Scripts (Social Psychology)

•Managing people

▫Plan – Do – Check - Act

▫Empowerment

•Development, coaching

▫Grow – Goal, Reality, Options, Will

•Self management

▫GTD - Getting things done

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Business process improvement

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GROW model

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GROW

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Exercise: GROW

•Instruction:

▫Form pairs

▫Divide roles: coachee & coach

▫Pick 1 issue you are currently working on

▫Use GROW model to improve

•Time: 5 minutes

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Prompting and fading

•Prompting

▫ Providing antecedents that evoke a target behavior

•Fading

▫ Gradually reducing the strength of a prompt

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Types of prompting

•Verbal

•Physical

•Gestural

•Modeling

•Environmental

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Rules for prompting and fading

•Define the target behavior

•Identify the suitable prompts

•Prompt reinforce and fade

•Monitor results

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Finding prompts

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Exercise: Finding prompts

•Instruction:

▫Form groups of 4-6 people

▫Think of real life examples of prompts from for at least 2 different categories:

 Verbal

 Physical

 Gestural

 Modeling

 Environmental

•Time: 5 minutes + 5 discussion

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Extinction

•Tool for decreasing frequency of behavior

•Withholding the reinforcers that maintain the behavior

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Rules for extinction

•Define target behavior

•Identify reinforcers that maintain target behavior

•Withhold all reinforcement

•Monitor results

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Talkative colleague

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Eric Berne

• Transactional analysis

• Book: Games people play

• 3 ego states

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Favourite games - examples

•Guess what is wrong with me?

•Yes, but..

•Parent´s club

•How would you apply extinction in these cases?

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Problems with extinction

•Behavior may produce reinforcement from number of sources

•It is slow and takes time

•Extinction burst – extinction leads often for a short period to sudden increase of behavior on extinction

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Differential reinforcement

•Combines extinction and reinforcement to change the frequency of target behavior

•Procedure:

▫Put the undesirable behavior on extinction

▫Reinforce the desirable target behavior

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Differential reinforcement types

•DRL

▫Differential reinforcement of low rates

•DRA

▫Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior

•DRI

▫Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior

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Discussion

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