Calvin worked on highway construction jobs in Florida. On the hottest days, he d

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Calvin worked on highway construction jobs in Florida. On the hottest days, he drank up to ten cans of soda. Calvin was concerned with all the sugar he was taking in; also, all the calories from the sodas were starting to make him bigger around the waist. He loved his sodas, but he wanted to cut down to no more than three a day. Describe how Calvin could implement three of the antecedent control procedures described in this chapter to decrease the number of sodas he drank each day.

Book; Behavior modification principle and procedure. six edition

Explanation / Answer

In antecedent control procedures antecedent stimuli are manipulated to evoke desirable behaviours and to decrease undesirable behaviours which interfere desirable behaviours.

The following are the three antecedent manipulation that make undesirable competing responses less likely:

1.removing the discriminative stimulus for undesirable behaviours if the discriminative stimulus for an undesirable behaviour are absent it is less likely that the person will engage in the behaviour. In absence of discriminative stimulus the competing behaviour is less likely to occur

2.removing establishing operations for the undesirable behaviours. If we make the outcome of the undesirable behaviour less reinforcing, we will be less likely to engage in the undesirable behaviour. Without establishing operations the reinforcer for competing behaviour will not be potent.

3. Increasing the response effort for undesirable behaviour or competing behaviours take more effort they are less likely to interfere with the desirable behaviour. A behaviour that required more response effort than a concurrent operant is less likely to occur response effort is increased through environmental manipulation. that means Kelvine should remove or be away from the soda cans.

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