Week 4 Response to the classmate
Instruction 1: Read and Respond to the two students posts on one page each of the responses. Please write their names to their responses, please
Instruction 2: Please do not critique the quality of their question. Just genuinely respond to their questions and give good opinions on the questions they pose, not criticize them.
1. Sabrina Yee
Week 4- Cooper, Heron, & Heward
Cooper, Heron, and Heward mention different methods of assessments. One of the direct assessments they mention is ABC data. In your experience, how did collecting ABC data help you better understand your client’s behaviors? How did it help you and/or your BCBA reduce the occurances of the undesired behaviors?
2. Maria Lopez
Behavioral Cusps and Pivotal Behavior
Cooper, Heron, and Heward explain behavior analysts “use a building block method to develop repertoires for clients” (pg. 61), essentially practitioners teach a more complex skill by teaching simpler and more attainable skills first. This is a very systematic and methodical approach to teaching, and behavior analysts believe choosing target behaviors that are behavior cusps and pivotal behaviors could improve the efficiency of developing new behaviors. How would behavior cusps and pivotal behavior do so? Is there more social validity in choosing target behaviors that are behavior cusps and pivotal behaviors?
