Behavior Modification

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction
    Areas of application: an overview
    Getting a behavior to occur more often with positive reinforcement
    Developing and maintaining behavior with conditioned reinforcement
    Decreasing a behavior with extinction
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Developing behavioral persistence through the use of intermittent reinforcement
    Types of intermittent reinforcement to decrease behavior
    Doing the right thing at the right time and place: stimulus discrimination and stimulus generalization
    Developing appropriate behavior with fading
    Getting a new behavior to occur: an application of shaping
    Getting a new sequence of behaviors to occur with behavioral chaining
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Eliminating inappropriate behavior through punishment
    Establishing a desirable behavior by using escape and avoidance conditioning
    Procedures based on principles of respondent conditioning
    Respondent and operant conditioning together
    Transferring behavior to new settings and making it last: generality of behavior change
    Capitalizing on exisiting stimulus control: rules and goals
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Capitalizing on exisiting stimulus control: modeling, guidance, and situational inducement
    Motivation and behavior modification
    Behavioral assessment: initial considerations
    Direct behavioral assessment: what to record and how
    Functional assessment of the causes of problem behavior
    Doing research in behavior modification
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Planning, applying, and evaluating a treatment program
    Token economies
    Helping an individual to develop self-control
    Cognitive behavior modification
    Areas of clinical behavior therapy
    Giving it all some perspective: a brief history
    Ethical issues