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- The principles of behavior have been demonstrated repeatedly, not only with human beings, but with many different species as well.
- Past behavior management strategies focused mainly on the consequences a student would receive for engaging in problem behavior.
- If a consequence results in a decrease in behavior, it is considered punishing.
- A mistake made by many people is to assume that their own perception of what is reinforcing or punishing applies to others.
- Students who engage in problem behavior to obtain attention are not always seeking positive attention.
- An important first step in positive behavioral support is to identify the relationship between problem behavior and the consequences that occur immediately following the behavior.
- The function of a problem behavior can be divided into two categories: those that occur to obtain a desired outcome and those that occur to escape an undesirable outcome.
- The context surrounding a student has an influence on problem behavior.
- A large number of studies have demonstrated that contextual variables such as antecedents and setting events play a part in controlling problem behavior.
- When an antecedent serves as a signal for occasioning a response, it is called a discriminative stimulus.
- The concept of stimulus control is an important factor in human learning.
- Behavioral support plans must include strategies resulting in behavior change that is durable over time, occurs across many environments, and has a positive effect on a wide variety of desirable behaviors.
- It is important for a student to know when it is not appropriate to respond in situations where the controlling stimuli are not present.
- Shaping involves reinforcing successive approximations toward a desired response.
- Prompting strategies are used to increase correct responding.
- When a behavior that has a history of being reinforced no longer results in reinforcement and behavior decreases, it referred to as extinction.
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