Consequence can have multiple effects, depending on the functions of the behavior : a client is engaging in hand flapping and the therapist uses response blocking to stop the behavior. This stimulus(physically blocking) could have [evoking escape/avoidance behaviors, reinforcing engagement in hand flapping, punishing engagement in hand flapping]
Stimulus with multiple fuctions
- may result in diverse responses, any combination of responses may occur.
- eliciting respondent behavior, evoking operant behavior, punishing the behavior, and/or reinforcing the behavior.
- example, Sarah tells a dirty joke to her co-workers. the stimulus of telling a joke most likely results in, 1) co-worker will have no reaction, 2) co-worker could be offended by the joke 3) co-workers will laugh .... none of these example describe multiple functions of a single stimulus.
Stimulus control
- occurs when there is a change in the frequency, latency, duration, or amplitude of a response is changed in the presence of an antecedent stimuli.
- five factors that could affect stimulus control : pre-attending masking, overshadowing, over-selevtive stimulus control, pro-attending skills, and stimulis salience. #MOOPS
- Masking and overshadowing are two factors that affect stimulus salience.
- Overshadowing: when one stimuls interferes with the contact of stimulus control over another stimulus. (example, your husband watches football instead of listening to how your day was at worrk.
- Masking is when there has been stimulus control in the past, but another stimulus is can block the evocative function of the stimulus.(example, a person drinks wine in their home, but will not drink wine in the presence of others. Masking affects stimulus salience)
- Stimulus salience is when an variable in one's environment that stands out and can affect the stimulus control. When there is increase in salience it allows a person to learn easier.
Motivating Operations
- includes abative and avocative effects, which can both occur as the result of the same stimulus(mutiple effects)
Functional relationship
-can only be demonstrated with a well-designed experiment
- between IV and DV has been demostrated with data that shows changes in events consistently altering the response class.
- between two variables is a significant and predictable change in the behavior(DV) that can be produced by a specific change in another event/environment(IV)