Effective Behavior Modification Techniques in Education

Behavior Modification Techniques:

To behaviorists, the main forms of behavior control are: punishment, reinforcement, and extinction.

1. Withdrawal of Care Misconduct: Serve with:
Reinforcement of appropriate behaviors to inappropriate and incompatible behaviors.
2. Isolation: During time out or a short period of time: 5 to 7 minutes.

3. Punishment: To give something undesirable. Provide an unpleasant consequence for the misconduct. Removing a reward once enjoyed.

4. Reinforcement: Positive and negative

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Understanding OCD and Its Impact on Childhood Development

OCD: Obsessions and compulsions are the presence of persistent and recurrent thoughts or behaviors severe enough to cause marked distress, a significant loss of time in their construction, and interference with the usual routine of the child, or school functioning.
Relationships:
  • Contamination, germs, and dirt.
  • Intense fear for oneself or family members.
  • Symmetry, order, and accuracy.
  • Moral scruples and religious content.
  • Concern for waste or body fluids.
  • Lucky or unlucky numbers.
  • Thoughts, images, or
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Understanding the Laws of Perception in Gestalt Psychology

The Collection
The elementary theory is devoted to studying the feelings and is considered part of the contents of perceptions. The sensations are studied as simple and indivisible contents of perception. We now know that this is so because perception involves many factors that should be studied as a whole. Feelings are related to the stimuli triggered by the external or internal environment: noise, odor, flavor, or something that falls before us. These stimuli trigger an activity through the sensory

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Human Developmental Psychology: Concepts and Theories

ITEM 7: Introduction to the Psychology of Development

Preliminary Concepts

  • Growth: Quantitative physiological changes.
  • Maturation: Differentiation and development of biological structures and functional capabilities resulting from the interaction between genetics and experience.
  • Development: Functional relationship between behavior change and chronological age. Individual change is multidimensional and multidirectional.
  • Learning: Changes caused by external influences.

7.1. The Psychology of Development:

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Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research Designs

Pre-experiments

Pre-experiments offer minimal control.

  1. Case Study with a Single Measurement: A stimulus or treatment is applied to a group, followed by measurement of one or more variables. This design lacks a true experiment’s rigor, with no independent variable manipulation or comparison group, hindering causality establishment and internal validity control.
  2. Pretest-Posttest Design with a Single Group: A pretest is administered, followed by the stimulus/treatment, and finally a posttest. While offering
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Perception: The New Look in Psychology

The New Look in Psychology

Around 1950, American psychologists like Jerome Bruner and Leo Postman introduced a new concept to Gestalt theory, called the “New Look”.

Sensory Images and Prior Arrangements

They argued that sensory images (sight, sound, touch, smell) are influenced by prior arrangements within the perceiver. Our perception acts as a “tuned body,” interpreting stimuli based on knowledge, experience, and feelings.

Stimuli Selection and Personality

Stimuli selection relates to our personality.

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