Experimental analysis of behavior

Behavioral therapy is an action-based therapy that helps changing a negative or possibly self-damaging behavior into a more positive one through series of treatments. One of the most effective treatment is operant conditioning. Operant conditioning is a learning process that occurs by consequences of a behavior. The behavior of an organism is strengthened or weakened by the type of consequences it receives: a reward (reinforcement) or a punishment. The consequences lead to the general techniques…

This chapter talks about mental testing in America. James Cattell and Galton believed that intelligence is hereditary. Henry Herbert Goddard shared a similar view to James Cattell and Galton. He conducted a study in the heredity of feeblemindedness and wrote a book called “Kallikak Family.” Ligthner Witmer was an environmentalist and he believed that hereditary was an excuse for an action. One of the research psychiatrists in this area was Alfred Binet. Theodor Simone joined Binet’s team and…

life that changed because he decided to go more towards becoming a psychologist. After he earned his doctorate from Harvard in 1931, he began working on psychiatry and the ideas of human/society's behaviors. He believed, while observing behaviorism in people, they could be shaped into doing new behaviors or changed by the Punishment: Administering an unpleasant reinforcer after an unwanted response, Extinction: The reinforcement…

B.F. Skinner, an American psychologist, philosopher and poet, was born March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. B.F. Skinner would live 86 years where he would ultimately pass from leukemia on August 18, 1990. B.F. Skinners early life was that of any American families at the time, his father worked and his mother stayed home to look after him and his younger brother. His Younger brother who was two years younger than he, would later die at the age of 16 due to a cerebral hemorrhage CITATION…

parenting less enduring and more pleasant for both the baby and mother. I would like to further explore the details of infant development and how the aircrib corresponds, the bond between parent and child, and more details of Skinner’s theory of behavior. First of all, what is a baby box or aircrib? The aircrib is a rectangular device, the same size as an average baby crib that is almost entirely enclosed and is temperature controlled. The…

This semester in Experimental psychology: Learning and Behaviors we started lab by learning to understand the responsibilities on how to use animals in a laboratory setting. We had to pass a test regarding the ethics of the treatment of animals. These ethics involved the institution, state, and federal regulations. Once we finished this process we received 15 Syrian male hamsters that were only 22 days old. We got split into a group of two, and got to care for one hamster per group. Each group…

considered foundational in psychology and is still applicable to the mind’s processes. Operant conditioning involves a multitude different principles that leave it relevant in today’s psychology, these principles include: shaping, aversive stimuli, behavior modification, and reinforcement. Skinner also was an author along with his work in the psychology field. His books were stories but his ideals of operant conditioning bled through in his works. This paper is going to examine…

Decades of research from educational, mental health and applied behavioural analysis assisted in developing the key concepts and framework of PBIS (Horner, Sugai & Anderson, 2010). PBIS is a multi-tiered (primary, secondary and tertiary) behavioural intervention model using a proactive and positive reinforcement approach to address…

Behavior is defined as the way that a person acts. Behavior can be reinforced or reduced. Reinforcement is used to ensure that favorable behaviors are encouraged and unfavorable behaviors are reduced, when done correctly. There are many procedures that can be used to ensure that unfavorable behaviors do not continue. One procedure that is used and is successful would be extinction. Extinction is defined as a process of reinforcing a behavior for a period of time before stopping the reinforcement…

Disorders (ASD). Using a single subject research design, the researchers compared four subjects’ baseline scores with their experimental scores after beginning the treatment phase of the study. The following sections of the group document will describe the particulars of the study’s experimental design and review the study across the seven dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis as described by Baer, Wolf, and Risley (1968). The seven dimensions are as follows: analytic, applied, behavioral,…