PSY 7709 (PSY7709)

Interactive Media

Part One: Observation You need to observe someone for half an hour and identify three behaviors of interest that could be selected for behavior modification. To avoid reactivity, attempt to keep the observation as discrete as possible without informing the subject that he or she is being observed. Some examples of potential behaviors could include: Observing your child wiping his nose on his sleeve. Observing a TV character telling inappropriate jokes. Observing a friend bite her nails. P...

Xavier is a three-year-old child who was just diagnosed with autism. He has never had functional language and exhibits frequent tantrums in the form of crying, hitting, and throwing items. Xavier recently began receiving ABA therapy and is your new client. Xavier’s grandmother is his guardian and wants his therapist to focus on teaching him the alphabet, shapes, colors, and numbers. In this assignment, write a letter responding to Xavier’s grandmother and include the following: An anal...

For this assignment, write a paper that includes the following: Describe the main types of reinforcement schedules: Fixed interval. Fixed ratio. Variable ratio. Variable interval. Explain how each schedule works to evoke a behavior and the type of responding that results. Describe how you would use this information on response rates and reinforcement schedules to evoke a behavior in your personal or professional life. Analyze why you would choose a particular reinforcement schedule for...

For this assignment, use the template Motivating Operations and Discriminative Stimuli [DOC]. This template has one column for similarities and one column for differences. In a bulleted format, fill in your analysis of the two concepts, placing similarities in the left column and differences in the right column. Once you fill out the similarities and differences, do the following below the columns: Identify and describe three real situations from your environment or experience (please iden...

o complete this assignment, write an APA-formatted paper in which you: Review the examples in the grid below and identify which verbal operant (mands, tacts, echoic, and intraverbal) is being presented. Either copy and paste the table into your document or recreate the grid in your paper, then fill in the third column.Define each of the four verbal operants and justify the answers you provided. Why did you choose the verbal operant that you did?Provide your own example of each verbal operant ...