Problem:
Using the case study from Kimberly Maich, Darren Levine, and Carmen Hall (2016) text, Applied Behavior Analysis: Fifty Case Studies in Home, School, and Community Settings. Select either "Important for ME, or Important for YOU" (pg. 160) or "I Wish Hilde Would Just Tell Us" (pg. 218). Then, analyze the following using a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 10-12 slides (excluding the title slide and reference slide). Be sure that your title slide includes the names of all team members. The first content slide should briefly introduce your chosen case. The last content slide should provide a brief summary (conclusion) to the case presentation. Your PPT's final slide should be a reference slide formatted in APA format
Motivating Operations: Identify any establishing or abolishing operations present in the scenario. How do these affect the individual's behavior? Be sure to include how value-altering and behavior-altering effects are evident within the case. Need Assignment Help?
Contingencies: Identify whether the behavior of concern is rule-governed or contingency-shaped. Provide a brief rationale for your selection. Define the five contingencies (reinforcement, punishment, extinction). Identify what specific environmental contingencies are currently maintaining the target behavior(s).
Verbal Behavior: Identify the six elementary verbal operants (mand, tact, etc.) and their specific properties, including point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity, and describe how verbal behavior is affected by environmental variables (antecedents/consequences). Identify specific verbal operants that are relevant to the case study and briefly explain the effects of these verbal behavior deficits.
Stimulus Control: Analyze how stimulus control may be influencing the individual's behaviors. What are the current stimuli in the environment that evoke or elicit the target behavior(s)?
Emergent Relations: Describe the three components of stimulus equivalence (reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity). Then, explain how these principles contribute to the formation of more complex relational frames, such as entailments and transformation of stimulus function, and briefly identify their role in the development of language and cognition.
As a team, design a set of strategies based on the case study that includes:
Manipulation of Motivating Operations: Propose strategies to adjust the MOs to encourage positive behavior change, explaining the effects (abolishing/establishing operations and states of MO).
Contingencies: Develop a total of four specific reinforcement/punishment strategies (a positive and negative for each) that could be used to modify the problem behavior. Support the use of punishment procedures with a rationale.
Verbal Behavior Support: Include specific training or reinforcement techniques to improve verbal behavior, referencing the principles of verbal operants, stimulus equivalence, and multiple control.
Stimulus Control: Provide a detailed example of how you would use a shaping procedure that uses differential reinforcement and stimulus and response prompt fading techniques to transfer stimulus control to relevant environmental stimuli.
Generalization and Maintenance: Explain how you would plan for generalization and maintain the learned behaviors over time, particularly with respect to how emergent relations would support the process. Create a diagram that demonstrates one example of how you could support the development of emergent relations for this client, with a consideration of how a transformation of function could be established. Make sure you add in-text citations and references in APA style.