Behavior Modification: What It Is and How To Do It
Garry Martin
12th Edition
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,Table of Contents
PART I – THE BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION APPROACH
1. Introduction
2. Areas of Application: An Overview
3. Defining, Measuring, and Recording Target Behavior
4. Doing Behavior Modification Research
PART II – BASIC BEHAVIORAL PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES
5. Respondent (Classical, Pavlovian) Conditioning of Reflexive Behavior
6. Increasing a Behavior With Positive Reinforcement
7. Increasing Behavior With Conditioned Reinforcement
8. Decreasing a Behavior With Operant Extinction
9. Getting a New Behavior to Occur With Shaping
10. Developing Behavioral Persistence With Schedules of Reinforcement
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11. Responding at the Right Time and Place: Operant Stimulus Discrimination and Stimulus
Generalization
12. Changing the Stimulus Control of a Behavior With Fading
13. Getting a New Sequence of Behaviors to Occur With Behavior Chaining
14. Differential Reinforcement Procedures to Decrease Behavior
15. Decreasing Behavior With Punishment
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16. Establishing Behavior by Escape and Avoidance Conditioning
17. Respondent and Operant Conditioning Together
18. Transferring Behavior to New Settings and Making It Last: Programming of Generality of Behavior
Change
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PART III – CAPITALIZING ON OPERANT ANTECEDENT CONTROL PROCEDURES
19. Antecedent Control: Rules and Goals
20. Antecedent Control: Modeling, Physical Guidance, and Situational Inducement
21. Antecedent Control: Motivation
PART IV – PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE BEHAVIORAL
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PROGRAMS
22. Functional Assessment of Causes of Problem Behavior
23. Planning, Applying, and Evaluating a Behavioral Program
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24. Token Economies
25. Helping an Individual to Develop Self-Control
PART V – BEHAVIOR THERAPY FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
26. Behavioral Approaches to Psychotherapy: Cognitive Restructuring, Self-Directed Coping Methods,
and Mindfulness and Acceptance Procedures
27. Psychological Disorders Treated by Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies
PART VI – A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND ETHICAL ISSUES
28. Giving It All Some Perspective: A Brief History
29. Ethical Issues
, OPTION-BASED QUESTIONS
Chapter 1. Introduction
Type: Conceptual
1. A behavioral excess is:
* a) too much of a particular type of behavior
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b) too little of a particular type of behavior
c) an appropriate behavior occurring to the wrong stimulus
d) an appropriate behavior occurring at the wrong time or place
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Difficulty: Easy
Type: Conceptual
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2. Which of the following is an example of behavior?
a) hair color b) the color of someone’s eyes
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c) the clothes someone is wearing *d) dressing in the morning
Difficulty: Medium
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Type: Factual
3. In behavior modification, motivation and intelligence refer to:
a) inner mental processes * b) ways of behaving
c) causes of behavior d) major sources of abnormality
Difficulty: Easy
Type: Conceptual
, 4. In behavior modification, the term “environment” refers to:
a) the neighborhood in which a person is raised
b) the natural habitat of an organism
* c) the specific physical variables in one’s immediate surroundings
d) the general situation where one happens to be
Difficulty: Easy
Type: Factual
5. A child does not pronounce words clearly and does not interact with
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other children.These are examples of:
a) behavioral excesses b) behavioral abnormalities
* c) behavioral deficits d) behavioral characteristics
Difficulty: Medium
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6. Behavior modifiers stress the importance of defining problems
in terms ofspecific behavioral deficits or behavioral excesses
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because:
a) therapists can then focus on the individual’s problem behaviors rather
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than on his oriiher strengths
* b) it is behavior that causes concern, and there are specific
procedures now availableiito change behavior