Blue books schedules

Blue books: Practical value

At each choice, the basis for being correct is the same upon the completion of the learning experience as it was at the beginning. Stated otherwise, the terminal requirement for reinforcement and the initial requirement for reinforcement are one and the same. 3

At each choice, the basis for being correct is the same upon the completion of the learning experience as it was at the beginning. Stated otherwise, the terminal requirement for reinforcement and the initial requirement for reinforcement are one and the same. 4Approximation method

What characterizes the approximation method is that there is a graduated series of requirements, each of which differs from the preceding requirement. 5

Stimulus change procedures

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one way to discover the operative contingencies is through stimulus change.

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These problems have in common the fact that a given pattern of behavior is established under fairly controlled conditions, and this pattern is to be carried over to conditions that are much more uncontrolled, and are likely to shift continually. 9

Adaption to ever changing stimuli10

Other option is to provide stimuli that are related to the ultimate context where the response patterns will be used.11

Strong contingencies over ride disruption of stimulus change created by stimulus props12No Mo of that!

Hmmm. I do not think that will work.Severity of the stimulus change must be strong enough to create disruptionWhen this does not work, they make it stronger Social disapproval14

we should apply it abruptly and at full strength and without prior exposure. 15

We can also reverse the boundary-expansion procedures that sustain behavior through stimulus change. We can establish behavior under a very narrow range of props (the proverbial ministers daughter), we can minimize programming of change, and so on. 16

Disruption may free from false contingencies , avoidance/ superstion17

Yup we are biological organisimsTo change behavior we need an orgnisimBut how do we interpret changes to that orgnisim and stay consistent with princpals of beahvior?18

Where physiological change eliminates a stimulus prop, it may do so in at least two ways. In one case, the mere fact of change may be stimulus change, as when an injection is given. In the other case, the physiological change, no matter how produced, may alter the state of the organism, and thereby eliminate or obscure stimulus props that have been present during the establishment and maintenance of behavioral patterns. 19