4. Session Overview
Review Make it Stick
Community At-Home Extensions
Content Gift from Science
Collaboration Practical Applications
5. Week 2
Review A for Antecedent
Community Bye, Junk Demands!
Content Special Antecedents
Collaboration Commit & Stick
6. Review
Ante-cedent!
• “A stimulus or event that preceded some other
event or a contingency; a discriminative stimulus in
a three-term contingency is one kind of
antecedent”
• In other words – “What comes BEFORE”
Catania, Charles. Learning 4th Edition (1998)
7. Review
Harness Antecedents
• If we can control relevant antecedents we can
decrease opportunity for challenging behavior
– Bjorn can’t jump on chair to see out window to see
passing dogs
– Bjorn can’t reach plant to dig in plant to eat dirt
8. Review
Unset the Stage, if possible
• Use what you have learned from history to prevent
challenging behavior by unsetting the stage
9. Review
Antecedents Don’t “Cause” Bx
• Be warned, if we don’t address the function of the
behavior, trouble (aka Bjorn) might still get by…
12. Review
Antecedent Interventions
• Fights w/ sibling during dinner prep?
– Dinner Bin Time (keep it out of reach during other times!)
Photo via happyhooligans.ca
15. Review
A Real Life Example
• Once upon a time there was a boy who liked the
milk in his cereal bowl poured to the tip top. If it
wasn’t to the tip top (even though it was far too
much milk for his cereal) he would scream & yell.
• What were his parents to do?
16. Review
A Real Life Example
• Advertise
• Allow child to pick favorite cereal bowl
• Create individually portioned cereal options
• Prepare pitcher of correctly portioned milk
• Make & read a Starring You! How To book
• Practice happy
• Make the rule come true!
Photos via crateandbarrel.com, kaboodle.com, iseeme.com & bedbathandbeyond.com,
17. Review
Not-A-Test
• An antecedent, behaviorally speaking, can best
be described as:
(a) what happens after a behavior occurs
(b) what happens before a behavior occurs
(c) what causes a behavior to occur
(d) how a child feels before she engages in a behavior
18. Review
Not-A-Test
• An antecedent, behaviorally speaking, can best
be described as:
(a) what happens after a behavior occurs
(b) what happens before a behavior occurs
(c) what causes a behavior to occur
(d) how a child feels before she engages in a behavior
ANSWER: (B) An antecedent comes before a behavior but does not cause
operant behavior contrary to popular opinion
19. Week 2
Review A for Antecedent
Community Bye, Junk Demands!
Content Special Antecedents
Collaboration Commit & Stick
20. Community
Collaboration
What are Junk Demands?
• Question Demands
– Are you ready for bedtime?
• Unnecessary Demands
– No running (when it is actually safe)
• Vague Demands
– Be careful
• Unenforceable Demands
– Come here (from across the room)
Photos via awordywoman.com, amazon.com, mysafetysign.com, & telegraph.co.uk
21. Community
Ways to Offer Choices
Open Ended Questions
Structured Choices
Micro Choices
You or Me Choices
23. Community
Time for Reflection
• What type of choice did you offer?
• Were choices offered before challenging behavior?
• Did you offer only two simple choices?
– If You or Me Choice, could you “enforce” one of the
options?
• Did you wait patiently for 10 seconds?
• Did you mix in any extra demands or negotiations?
• Did you honor your child’s choice if s/he chose?
• Did you calmly choose if s/he didn’t?
• Challenges? Surprises?
24. Community
Collaboration
What 16 Junk Demands Did
You Live Without?
Gather with people
with same color name QUESTION UNENFORCEABLE
tags in same spot as
before.
How did it go? UNNECESSARY VAGUE
What did you notice?
25. Week 2
Review A for Antecedent
Community Bye, Junk Demands!
Content Special Antecedents
Collaboration Commit & Stick
27. Content
The ABCs of Behavior
Establishing
Operational
Operations &
Definitions
Discriminative Stimuli
Antecedent
28. Content
Special Antecedents
• Establishing Operations
– Make a reinforcer more reinforcing
• A snack-free afternoon makes food at
dinner more reinforcing
• Discriminative Stimuli
– Signal what behavior will be
reinforced or punished
• A direction such as “please sit down”
is a sign that sitting down will be
reinforced
Photos viajcsnotebook.org & safetysign.com
29. Content
Establishing Operations?
• These powerhouses influence the potency of the
reinforcer
– Trying to teach appropriate transitioning to the car?
• Keep a special box of your child’s favorite toys in your car &
make them available ONLY if she transitions without protest
Photo via readysetread.com
30. Content
Discriminative Stimuli?
• These superstars give us clues about which
behavior will result in reinforcement
– Child interrupts while you are talking on the phone?
• Consider using a Picture Rule to teach that the presence of
the phone means that the child can find a book to wait &
that attempts to talk will be honored when the phone call is
done. Then make the rule come true!
Photos via allposters.com & wellreadstudent.com
31. Content
Not-A-Test
• A (n) _____________ works by changing the
reinforcement properties of a reinforcer.
(a) functional analysis
(b) establishing operation
(c) preference assessment
(d) discriminative stimulus
32. Content
Not-A-Test
• A (n) _____________ works by changing the
reinforcement properties of a reinforcer.
(a) functional analysis
Establishing
(b) establishing operation
operations effect
(c) preference assessment the reinforcer
(d) discriminative stimulus
ANSWER: (B) An establishing operation is a special antecedent that makes a reinforcer more reinforcing!
33. Content
Not-A-Test
• A (n) _____________ works by telling us what
behavior will get reinforced or punished.
(a) functional analysis
(b) establishing operation
(c) preference assessment
(d) discriminative stimulus
34. Content
Not-A-Test
• A (n) _____________ works by telling us what
behavior will get reinforced or punished.
(a) functional analysis
(b) establishing operation Discriminative stimuli
(c) preference assessment effect behavior
(d) discriminative stimulus selection
Answer: (D) A discriminative stimulus is a special antecedent that signals what behavior will be reinforced or punished
35. Week 2
Review A for Antecedent
Community Bye, Junk Demands!
Content Special Antecedents
Collaboration Commit & Stick
37. Collaboration
Commit & Stick!
• Choices Before
– You are choice-offering professionals now
• Consistency During
– rite it down & make the rule come true!
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• Changes Later
– Make changes at HAT meetings
38. Collaboration
In-Workshop Extension
• Each family will consider one behavior that is
causing a problem in your home & to which your
response has been inconsistent
• Write down:
– Operational definition of the behavior
– Observable antecedents to the behavior
– Your new plan – be very specific!
– How long you are going to commit to try plan
– A date & time to make revisions if needed
39. Collaboration
At-Home Extension
• Please email me by SUNDAY night
– A 30-second video of your child engaging in a
challenging behavior that is plaguing your happy
home life!
• Be warned this will probably be more difficult than the last
video assignments because you can’t set it up in the same
way… so keep your camera handy!
– A Sunday night, last resort: If this assignment ends up solving all
behavior issues this week, please ask your child to act it out on
Sunday night for you to film. Drama welcome!
