Behaviour Change Procedures - Terms

Question 1

Indiscriminable Contingencies

Answer 1

Varying schedules and immediacy of reinforcement

Question 2

Program common stimuli

Answer 2

bringing stimuli from the natural setting into the training setting fosters generalization to the natural setting

Question 3

Train loosely

Answer 3

varying non-critical properties of the antecedent stimuli

Question 4

General case analysis

Answer 4

To teach a concept (ie. what is a candle?) you identify critical features of the concept (i.e. flame, wick, hot, wax etc.) then ensure that your instruction includes discriminations between items that include these features and items that do not (i.e have 2 or less features)