Behavior Modification

All necessary reference material required to prepare for this course such as recommended reference books and other study material will be available in your student's area. To complete the program you will be required to pass an online exam for all following topics covered in this course.

Topics Covered in This Course:

In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:

Introduction

Areas of application: an overview

Getting a behavior to occur more often with positive reinforcement

Developing and maintaining behavior with conditioned reinforcement

Decreasing a behavior with extinction

In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:

Developing behavioral persistence through the use of intermittent reinforcement

Types of intermittent reinforcement to decrease behavior

Doing the right thing at the right time and place: stimulus discrimination and stimulus generalization

Developing appropriate behavior with fading

Getting a new behavior to occur: an application of shaping

Getting a new sequence of behaviors to occur with behavioral chaining

In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:

Eliminating inappropriate behavior through punishment

Establishing a desirable behavior by using escape and avoidance conditioning

Procedures based on principles of respondent conditioning

Respondent and operant conditioning together

Transferring behavior to new settings and making it last: generality of behavior change

Capitalizing on exisiting stimulus control: rules and goals

In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:

Capitalizing on exisiting stimulus control: modeling, guidance, and situational inducement

Motivation and behavior modification

Behavioral assessment: initial considerations

Direct behavioral assessment: what to record and how

Functional assessment of the causes of problem behavior

Doing research in behavior modification

In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:

Planning, applying, and evaluating a treatment program

Token economies

Helping an individual to develop self-control

Cognitive behavior modification

Areas of clinical behavior therapy

Giving it all some perspective: a brief history

Ethical issues

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