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DH 103 MitdtermTerms
Question | Answer |
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Readiness | willingness and ability to change |
Willpower | Quality learned and developed over time, strengthened by success, weakened by failure |
Performance discrepancy | gap between desired performance and actual performance; difference between our desires and our abilities |
Skill deficiency | lacks ability to perform skills to accomplish goal |
Management dificiency | lack of desire, "time management", just doesn't do it |
Baseline counts | measurement of the target behavior before change initiated |
Realistic Goals | related to baseline data, setting achievable, fact-based goals |
Pinpointing | when and where a behavior does or does not occur |
Rates or base-rates | number of times behavior occurs during a period of time; frequency and quantity |
Event recording | recording pinpointed behavior each time it occurs and the total as a rate |
Time sampling | counting only during a specifically determined time slot |
Permanent products counting method | counting permanent products of a behavior (e.g., counting candy wrappers or cigarette butts) |
Baserate contract | Written agreement for a behavior change |
intermediate objectives | measurable, achievable steps that occur along the way achieving the goal |
Modeling | demonstrating the new skill or behavior |
Prompting or cueing | telling how, written instructions, using gestures, guiding their hand |
Antecedents | events occuring just before the behavior; cues or signals that a particular type of consequence will follow a particular behavior (e.g. seeing a police care in your mirror) |
Consequences | events occurring just after the behavior |
Reinforcers | a material activity or social response |
Tokens | a reinforcer that can be exchanged for material or activity |
Punishment | a negative consequence--can result in side effects, pretty ineffective |
Stimulus control | technique to stop consummatory behavior, narrowing antecedent |
Feedback | reflecting how well someone is doeing toward their goal |
Continuous reinforcement | reinforcement that follows every instance of the behavior we wish to change |
Extinction | identifying the positive consequences or reinforcements that keep behvior going then stop or withholding these |
Shaping | recognition and reinforcement of successful approximation in achieving a goal |
Fading | Slowly withdrawing support |