ABA506 - Assignment 1

Summary of Behavior Change Strategies:

Below you will find a list of behavior change strategies you can leverage for your assignment.

Antecedent Focused:

1. Goal Setting

2. Antecedent Manipulations

a. Using Cues

b. Response Effort

c. Motivational Strategies

i. Establishing operations

ii. Abolishing operations

3. Discrimination and Generalization

4. Prompting

a. Types

i. verbal

ii. gestural

iii. modeling

iv. physical

b. Fading of Prompts

i. Fading with a prompt

ii. Fading across prompts

iii. Prompt delay

5. Programming

6. Self-instructions

7. Social Support

Behavior Focused:

1. Shaping

2. Fear and Anxiety Procedures

a. Relaxation Techniques

b. Desensitization (Systematic and in-vivo)

c. Flooding

d. Modeling

3. Habit Reversal

4. Cognitive Behavior Modification

a. Cognitive Restructuring

b. Cognitive Coping Skills Training

c. Acceptance Techniques

Consequence Focused:

1. Token Economy

2. Differential Reinforcement

a. DRA

b. DRI

c. DRO

d. DRL

3. Self-Praise

4. Punishment Procedures

a. Time-out

i. Exclusionary

ii. Non-exclusionary

b. Response Cost

c. Overcorrection

i. Positive Practice

ii. Restituition

d. Physical Restraint

e. Guided Compliance

f. Contingent Exercise

5. Social Support

6. General Use of Reinforcers and punishers