Revised on 1/4/14
In the 2nd column on p. 17 and on p. 32 Malott talks about immediacy again. This is a big deal in this course. I wouldn't be surprised if there are more immediacy errors in the CAs you'll turn in than any other kind of error. One of the reasons is that it seems so obvious that a reinforcer sometimes follows a behavior by more than 60 seconds, yet it still causes the behavior's frequency to increase. Yes, there are lots of situations in which it looks like that's what's going on. Many of those situations are what Malott calls analogs to reinforcement. Toward the end of the book we'll get into that topic in a big way. In the meantime, in discussions of examples of behavior in your course, and especially when you're creating CAs, remember that your consequence (e.g., a reinforcer or an aversive stimulus, event, or condition) must follow the target behavior immediately.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
More on immediacy
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Principles of Behavior: Ch. 02
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I teach courses in the principles and applications of Behavior Analysis, the science and technology of behavior, which is different from other approaches in psychology in that it takes behavior as a subject matter in its own right, rather than as a tool for studying something else, such as the mind. The main purpose of this blog is to be a supplementary means of communication with students who are taking my courses.
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