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Q: Habit Reversal
Answer:
A multi-component tx package for reducing unwanted habits that involves
identifying events that precede a target bx & engaging in competing responses.
Skinner called this "doing something else"
Q: Self-Directed Systematic Desensitization
Answer:
Substituting one bx for unwanted bx.
Hierarchy of situations of least-to-most fearful is developed.
Q: Massed Practice
Answer:
Forcing oneself to perform an undesired bx repeatedly.
Occasionally this strategy may decrease bx.
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Q: Prompts
Answer:
Supplementary antecedent stimuli that are introduced to evoke a desired response
when the discriminative stimulus is evident.
A functional, but irrelevant SD, such as a hint or reminder, designed to set the
occasion for a
desired response.
Q: 2 Types of Prompts
Answer:
1. Response Prompts
2. Stimulus Prompts
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Q: Response Prompts
Answer:
Response prompts act on the response itself, NOT on the antecedent
stimuli.
3 Forms:
1. Verbal
2. Modeling
3. Physical Prompting
Q: Stimulus Prompts
Answer:
Stimulus prompts act on the antecedent stimuli, NOT on the response.
They call attention to the stimulus that is in need of help.
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Q: 3 Forms
Answer:
1. Movement
2. Position
3. Redundancy
Q: 4 Ways to Remove Response Prompts
Answer:
MLGD
Q: Most-to-Least Prompting (AKA: Maximum-to-Minimum)
Answer:
Least-to-Most Prompting (AKA: Minimum-to-Maximum)
Graduated Guidance
Delayed Prompting (AKA: Time-Delayed Prompting, Delayed Cuing, Progressive
Delay)