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Respondent and Operant Conditioning Essay Photo Credit: GoodIdeas – stock.adobe.com Operant and respondent (classical) conditioning are both used to establish and modify behaviors. These concepts originated in the field of behavioral psychology and share similarities and differences. Perhaps the clearest…

PSYC 6717 week 9 Discussion: Contingencies The educator’s behavior plan isn’t working since she’s utilizing discipline as a way of fixing Randy’s forceful verbal behavior. Albeit the educator has applied discipline to keep Randy from acting in an undesirable way,…

Contingencies Program Transcript STEVEN LITTLE: I’m Dr. Steven Little, and this week we’re going to be talking about contingencies. We’ve talked about contingencies. Nothing I go through this week is going to be new. There’ll be more detail on contingencies,…

Discussion: Stimulus Control Photo Credit: zenstock – stock.adobe.com In the context of ABA, the applied behavior analyst often seeks to increase socially desirable behaviors and decrease socially undesirable behaviors. When a behavior is triggered (i.e., promoted or inhibited) by the…

Discussion: Stimulus Control Cooper, Heron, and Heward (2020) describe stimulus control as, “A situation in which the frequency, latency, duration, or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus” (p. 800). In operant…

Stimulus Control Essay Example 1 Behavior: behavior in which you regularly engage.  An example of discriminative stimuli is one in which every I get in the car to go somewhere, whether it be to work, school, or for pleasure, I…

Discriminative Stimuli essay example Assignment: Discriminative Stimuli Photo Credit: lenets_tan – stock.adobe.com When the rate of a behavior occurring is higher because of the presence of some antecedent stimulus than when that stimulus is absent, the behavior is said to…

Discussion: Motivating Operations Essay Example A motivating operation is an environmental variable that “(a) alters (increases or decrease) the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and (b) alters (increases or decreases) the current frequency of all…

PSYC 6717: Foundation and Philosophy of Behavior Analysis Course Reflection Essay Assignment: Course Reflection Photo Credit: fizkes / Adobe Stock Throughout this course, you have examined applied behavior analysis (ABA) and developed a fundamental understanding of its tenets and applications.…

PSYC-6002 Foundations of Graduate Study in Psychology Week 1: Welcome! The Walden Community and Your Program Welcome to Walden! When you were researching Walden University prior to enrolling in this program, you might have come across Walden’s vision, value, and…