Here are my notes on this topic:
1. Clicker Training (behavior modification)
- Karen Pryor
- Positive reinforcement
- No punishment
- Shaping
- Classically conditioning to link clicker & primary reinforcer
- Not Lure
- Animals
- zoos
- horses
- dogs & cats
- Humans
- gymnastics
2. Systematic Desensitization
- Joseph Wolpe
- Incompatible response
- Anxiety stimulus hierarchy
- Relaxation & coping skills (Hierarchy of fear)
- Systematic exposure to stimuli while relaxed
- Raise finger
3. Applied behavior analysis
- What’s In A Name
- Behavior modification
- Less attention to context and behavior-environment interactions
- Behavior engineering
- Applying empirical approaches to changing behaviors
- Uses respondent and operant conditioning
- 3 versions
- 1. Radical behaviorism (philosophy of science): Skinner
- 2. Experimental analysis (basic research)
- 3. Applied behavior analysis
- Assess context
- Targeted behavior
- Environment
- Interactions
- Used in
- Animal behavior
- Positive behavior is school
- Autism
- Rehab of brain injuries
- Fitness training
- Substance abuse
- Phobias
- Organizational behavior management
4. Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Increase psychological flexibility
- Steven Hayes
- Comprehensive distancing
- Focuses acceptance and comment therapy (FACT)
- Move toward valued behavior
- Open up to unpleasant feelings
- Learning not to overact
- Learn to not avoid situations
- Positive spiral
- Just notice, accept, embrace
5. Organizational Behavior Management
- Contingency management
- Analyze antecedent (triggers)
- Influencing actions
- Consequence
- Based on programmed instruction
- Owen Aldis (Of Piegeons and Men); reinforcement schedules
- Task clarification (use memos, checklists), signs
- Consequence interventions (feedback on performance)
- Reinforcement
