Behavioral Approach Overview
- Created by: Elle Wilby
- Created on: 12-05-14 12:09
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- Behavioral Approach
- Reinforcement
- POSITIVE - reinforcement by something pleasant happening so that the behavior will be repeated again.
- NEGATIVE - reinforcement by something negative happening. Something unpleasant stops happening
- INITIAL ASSESSMENT - The importance of the idea that changes cannot be known unless there is a Baseline against which it can be measured.
- Identify the specific behavior in the case study >Observe what is actually happening
- FEATURES OF OBSERVABLE BEHAVIOR
- Focuses on observable behavior
- Behavior is learned
- Behavior can be rewarded/reinforced leading to being repeated
- STRENGTHS
- Highly Focused Approach
- Quick and can be used with most problems
- Can be combined with Cognitive Techniques
- WEAKNESSES
- Negative focus - it is argued that it is a waste of time
- Just learning new techniques - not solving the problem
- Time consuming and expensive
- Reinforcement
- PAVLOV - Classical Conditioning
- Learning through association
- SKINNER - Operant Conditioning
- Learning through positive and negative reinforcement
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