Behavior Works: A Short Course in Behavior Analysis for Veterinary Professionals - Wet Lab

• Instructor: Susan Friedman

• Materials: Will be provided

• Subjects to be covered:

  • I. Introduction: The Significance of Science: Connecting the Dots to Behavior Analysis

    • a. Our Cultural Fog

      • i. Theological Influence

      • ii. Biological Determinism

      • iii. The Madness of Causes

      • iv. Constructs

      • v. Terminology Tumult

  • II. Behavior: The solution to behavior problems starts with behavior

    • a. What It Is

    • b. What It’s Not

    • c. Targets for Change

  • III. Two Learning Paradigms

    • a. Respondent Behavior and Learning

    • b. Operant Behavior and Learning

  • IV. The Scientific Analysis of Behavior

    • a. The Three Term Contingency

    • b. Functional Assessment

  • V. Respondent Behavior Change Procedures

    • a. Systematic Desensitization

      • i. Plus Reinforcement

    • b. Flooding

    • c. Empowerment vs. Submission – What Science Says

      • i. Operating on The Environment

      • ii. Contrafreeloading

      • iii. Learned Helplessness

      • iv. Enrichment

  • VI. Operant Behavior Change Procedures

    • a. A Simple Model of Behavioral Support

    • b. Antecedent Strategies – Setting Them Up to Succeed

      • i. Setting Events

      • ii. Establishing Operations

      • iii. Cues

        • 1. S^D and S^∆

      • iv. Prompting and Fading

      • v. Behavioral Momentum

    • c. Consequence Strategies - Nature’s Feedback Loop

      • i. The Overview – Four Quadrants

        • 1. Key Questions to Pick the Principle

      • ii. Increasing Behavior

        • 1. Reinforcement

        • 2. Positive and Negative

        • 3. Characteristics of Effective Reinforcement

        • 4. Identifying Reinforcers for Individuals

        • 5. Schedules of Reinforcement

          • a. Continuous vs. Intermittent

          • b. The Matching Law

        • 6. Establishing New Reinforcers

        • 7. Shaping – The Sharpest Teaching Tool in the Shed

          • a. How It Works

          • b. Many Uses

          • c. Skills Needed

          • d. Targeting

      • iii. Decreasing Behavior

        • 1. Punishment

        • 2. Positive and Negative

        • 3. Punishment and Reinforcement Compared

        • 4. Problems with Punishment for Teacher and Learner

        • 5. Redirecting Problem Behavior

        • 6. Alternatives to Punishment

          • a. Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behaviors

        • 7. Extinction and Time Out

          • a. Problems of Implementation

      • iv. Hierarchy of Procedures for Human and Effective Practices

      • v. Fair Pair Behavior-change Programs

      • vi. Other Strategies – Observational Learning

  • VII. Using the Functional Assessment and Intervention Design Form