Objectives
  • Define behavior modification
  • Explore how behavior modification can be useful in practice 
  • Learn basic behavior modification terms: Unconditioned stimulus and response. Conditioned stimulus and response, Discriminative stimuli, Punishment, Reinforcement, Learned helplessness, Extinction burst, Shaping and Chaining
  • Identify ways behavior modification can be used in therapy
  • Identify ways in which understanding of stimuli and rewards can be used to increase change