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Behavioral contract
With them in which they agreed to do several nice things for
each other.
Case # 2
Do you think ?
• Anger
• Sadness
• Confusion is a behavior?
Behavior Have one or more dimensions
Physical dimensions :
–Frequency
–Duration
–Intensity
• Thinking is?
• Expression of anger is?
• Disruptive behavior?
Behavior Modification/applied
behavior analysis
Field of psychology related to analysis and
modification of human behavior.
Identification of functional relationship
Environment and behavior are important
Developing and implementing procedures to
change behavior
Cont… behavior modification
• Measurement of behavior change
• continuous recording
• product recording
• interval recording
• and time sample recording.
Continuous Recording
The data sheet in Figure 2-5 is used to record the duration of a target
behavior.
On each day, there are places to record the times the behavior started
(onset)
and ended (offset). By recording the onset and offset of each instance of a
behavior,
you end up with a recording of how long the behavior occurred (duration), as
well as how often it occurred (frequency).
Reactivity