PSYCH 282- ANTECEDENT INTERVENTIONS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Antecedent Interventions - Antecedent stimuli are manipulated to evoke desirable behaviours that can be reinforced Antecedent interventions can also be called what 2 things? - - Antecedent control procedures - Antecedent manipulations Antecedent interventions: Step 1: Presenting, modifying, or _______ new sD for desirable behaviour - Developing A study looked at the amount of times a _____ would show the characters using seatbelts - Comic During this comic studying, the behavioural treatment program was to use ______ ______ every time they saw a comic without seatbelts - Written prompt The result of this treatment for the comics caused the use of seatbelts in the comic to go up _____ - 41% Antecedent interventions: Step 2: Presenting ________ ________for desirable behaviour - Establishing operations A study showed college linebackers not performing well, the behavioural treatment for this was to - Videotape the practices and post the performances of players in the locker room The results of this football treatment plan was that - Performance improved Antecedent interventions: Step 3: Decreasing _______ ______ for desirable behaviour - Response effortNudge theory - Behaviour manipulated by changing the ease or difficulty of performing it Experiment of trying to increase recycling conducted on 25 employees used a treatment program of... - Multiple baseline across settings Recycling experiment: Staff received memos about recycling in their - Pay stubs Recycling experiment: High response effort - Memo defined what paper can be recycled and explained that it could be deposited at a local recycle Recycling experiment: Low response effort - Defined recyclable paper and placed a small recycle bin on each employees desk Results of the recycle experiment showed that high response effort increased recycling by ____ while low effort response increased it by ____ - 40%, 89%