Behavior Modification: What it is and how to do it

Abstract

The behaviour modification approach - introduction areas of application - an overview basic behavioural principles and procedures - getting a behaviour to occur more often with positive reinforcement decreasing a behaviour with extinction getting a new behaviour to occur - an application of shaping developing behavioural persistance through the use of intermittent reinforcement types of intermittent reinforcement to decrease behaviour doing the right thing at the right time is a matter for stimulus discrimination training developing appropriate behaviour with fading developing and maintaining behaviour with conditioned reinforcement getting a new behaviour to occur with behavioural changing transferring behaviour to new settings and making it last - generality of behaviour change eliminating inappropriate behaviour through punishment establishing a desirable behaviour by using escape and avoidance conditioning procedures based on principles of respondent conditioning some preliminary considerations to effective programming strategies - short-cuts tactics with stimulus control - instruction, modeling, guidance, and situational inducement alternative strategies for decreasing behaviour dealing with data - behavioural assessment - initial considerations direct behavioural assessment - what to record and how doing research in behaviour modification putting it all together - designing a programme to overcome a behavioural handicap token economies helping an individual to develop self-control systematic self-desensitization cognitive behaviour modification areas of clinical behaviour therapy behaviour modification - a rapidly growing concern - giving it all some perspective - a brief history.