Behaviour Modification Techniques Sample Clauses

Behaviour Modification Techniques. Operant conditioning techniques aims to generate and to reduce behaviours by replacing undesirable or disadaptative behaviours with more desirable or adaptative ones. The origins of operant techniques are in the instrumental conditioning that it is based on the formulation of Xxxxxxxxx's Law of Effect. According to this law the pleasant or satisfactory consequences that follows a response increase the connection between stimulus and response, while unpleasant or unsatisfactory consequences weaken this connection. The operant conditioning techniques to develop and/or to maintain behaviours are: - Schedules of reinforcement - Shaping or successive approximations - Chaining - Fading - Negative reinforcements - Contingency organization systems A brief description of this techniques appears in the annexes. As it is described in the annexes Operant Conditioning Techniques aims to generate and to reduce behaviours by replacing undesirable or disadaptative behaviours with more desirable or adaptative ones. The Operant Conditioning Techniques to reduce and/or extinguish behaviours are: Extinction, Time out of Reinforcement, Response Cost, Satiation and Negative Practice, Differential Reinforcement, Overcorrection, and Punishment. Since the objective of the PlastiCircle ‘s compensation procedure is to encourage citizen to collect and sorting packaging waste through positive reinforcement, Operant Conditioning Techniques to reduce behaviours are not going to be described in the deliverable. On the one hand, Shaping or Successive Approximations, Chaining and Fading are better to be discarded as their implementation requires an individualized, customize and a tedious application. Also, Shaping or successive approximations is useful to develop non-existing previous behaviours that never occurs, and Chaining is useful to existing behaviours that together form more complex ones, so it not may since use these techniques for our objective (that consists in make more likely the recycling behaviour). Fading is also discarded because requires identifying which is the antecedent stimulus that control the target behaviour individually. Regarding Negative reinforcement procedure is discarded because require the collaboration of others (such as relatives) and the previous existence of a stimulus that the individual perceives as negative and can be withdrawn naturally if the desired behaviour appears. On the other hand, Schedules of Reinforcements, Token economy and Contingency Con...
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