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Dec 15, 2025
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University General Course Catalog 2022-2023 ARCHIVED CATALOG: LINKS AND CONTENT ARE OUT OF DATE. CHECK WITH YOUR ADVISOR.
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PSY 783 - Behavioral Interventions (3 units)
Methods of behavioral interventions for decreasing aberrant behaviors and increasing adaptive behavior (e.g. antecedent manipulations, extinction, differential reinforcement, punishment, and token economies) will be considered.
Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. prepare specific behavioral inerventions for reducing behaviors maintained by positive social reinforcement, Negative social reinforcement, and automatically maintained behaviors.These interventions will include acccurate description of target behaviors, use of preferred reinforcers, appropriate task analysis, appropriate shaping, fading and chaining methods, as well as manipulation of establishing operations.
2. apply all of these same methods for the acquisition of desireable alternative behaviors and / or for the acqisition of new cognitive, verbal, social and ademic skills.
3. indicate appropriate use when necessary of extinction, negative reinforcement , and punishment protocols.
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