Behavior Modification: What it is and how to do it

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.