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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Alternative Behaviors"”.
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A Constructional Canine Aggression Treatment: Using a Negative Reinforcement Shaping Procedure With Dogs in Home and Community Settings.
… the differential negative reinforcement of safe, alternative behaviors to aggression using distancing as the reinforcer were evaluated. The results demonstrated that even when the aggression was in evidence throughout most of the dog's lifetime, it responded quickly to changes in reinforcement …
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Attitudes and Behaviors of Adolescents toward Sunbathing and Sunscreen Use.
<p>This study explored the attitudes and behaviors of adolescents toward sunbathing and sunscreen use by employing the Theory of Alternative Behaviors (Jaccard, 1981) with adolescent participants and a respective parent co-participant.</p> <p>Females were found to be more likely to engage in …
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STRATEGIES TO ASSIST IN DECREASING ESCAPE MAINTAINED BEHAVIORS IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
… children with ASD partake in escape maintain behaviors for numerous reasons. Children with autism might have difficulty attending to long tasks, can get overwhelmed with novel activities, and the challenging behaviors may heighten when too many demands are placed on them. As a result, …
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Matthew's Gift: Teaching Parents of Children With Disabilities To Deal Effectively With Their Child's Problem Behavior
… with children with disabilities and problem behaviors may spend 5 to 10 years on the Utah DSPD Family Support waiting list before receiving support services. Families with children with disabilities and problem behavior experience difficult challenges with limited amounts of resources. CPSE …
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Use of skill-based treatment to teach how to ask for preferred items, tolerate denial, and compromise for less preferred alternatives
For some children, problem behaviors may arise due to environmental factors (Horner et al., 2002). Functional analysis is commonly used to help identify factors maintaining these behaviors (Hanley et al. 2003). Function-based interventions, such as teaching alternative behaviors to replace the …
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The Compatibility of Containment and Autonomy in Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty
… challenges this essentialist view by portraying alternative behaviors that indicate autonomy. The novel is set in 1920s Japan when transnational excitement and anxiety provided opportunities for one subaltern group, Japanese women, to gain autonomy. While some feminist movements in Japan …
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Group Matching and Group Contingencies
… function of the ratio of reinforcement rates for alternative behaviors. The mathematical relationship identified by Herrnstein and modified by Baum (1974) was later applied to foraging animals, given the option of two patches (Kennedy & Gray, 1993). This application lead to the demonstration that …
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Resurgence in Dogs
… routinely employs procedures to preempt problem behaviors by establishing and maintaining more acceptable alternative behaviors. Previous studies have shown that some of these procedures can nevertheless result in recurrence of original problematic behavior once training is completed and …
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Building Blocks for Human-AI Alignment: Specify, Inspect, Model, and Revise
The learned behaviors of AI systems and robots should align with the intentions of their human designers. In service of this goal, people—especially experts—must be able to easily specify, inspect, model, and revise AI system and robot behaviors. These four interactions are critical building blocks …
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From masterplanning to adaptive planning : understanding the contemporary tools and processes for civic urban order
… planning tools and processes which can act as alternative qualitative methodologies for the renewal of urban conditions at multiple scales through adaptive methods embracing change, stresses and shocks affecting societies and the city as a growing epicentre of human inhabitation and complex …