Shaping
A strategy for teaching novel behaviors using successive approximations to a terminal response, which are differentially reinforced until the client is able to differentiate the terminal response from the successive… Read more
G. Behavior-Change Procedures
Shaping across response topographies
A shaping method in which each successive approximation varies in form from the other approximations and the ultimate terminal response.
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Shaping within response topographies
A shaping method in which the response form of each successive approximation remains the same, but some other measurable dimension is being trained.
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Simple discriminations
Correct responding that requires discriminating one antecedent stimulus condition (SD) in which the response will produce reinforcement.
Stimulus equivalence
Defined as the untrained acquisition of a reflexive, symmetric, and transitive relation between stimuli that are in some way related.
Stimulus fading
A method of fading stimulus prompts by systematically and gradually lessening or removing them until control of an individual’s behavior transfers to the SD.
Stimulus prompt
A type of prompt that increases the salience of the SD and calls an individual’s attention to the stimulus that directs behavior, which is gradually faded out until the correct
Stimulus shape transformations
A method of fading stimulus prompts by starting with a stimulus that controls the desired response and systematically and gradually changing the shape of that stimulus into the SD that
Successive approximations
The gradual and progressive changes in criteria during a shaping procedure, with each change being closer in form to the desired terminal response.
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Symbolic matching-to-sample
A matching-to-sample procedure where clients are taught to match sample and comparison stimuli that are symbolically related, and not physically identical.
Symmetry
Defined as the trained relation of symbolically similar items and the demonstration of the relation in reverse without additional direct training. (i.e., If A=B, then B=A)
Task analysis
A breakdown of a complex behavior into small, teachable units that establish a behavior chain (series of steps and tasks presented in a specific order) that must occur in a