Week 3 Assignment-MOs and SDs

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1 Week 3 Assignment: MO’s and SD’s Stephanie Grace Kosinar Capella University PSY7709 – Advanced Concepts in Applied Behavior Analysis Dr. Lisa Sabato October 29, 2023
2 Similarities (3) (be sure to describe and not just list) 1. MOs and SDs are both stimuli of an antecedent, they both occur before a behavior (Cooper et al., 2020) 2. MOs and SDs influence the frequency of behavior, the amount of times it occurs. (Cooper et al., 2020) 3. MOs and SDs can be used with antecedent manipulation to increase or decrease behavior. (Cooper et al., 2020) Differences (3) (be sure to describe and not just list) 1. An MO can alter value, while an SD cannot. (Cooper et al., 2020) 2. An SD signals availability, while an MO does not. (Cooper et al., 2020) 3. An MO affects future behaviors that can occur, while an SD does not. (Cooper et al., 2020). 4. An SD can affect any current behaviors occurring, while an MO does not. (Cooper et al., 2020) Examples MOs and SDs are both terms that are used in ABA, the field of Behavior Analysis. An MO is a motivating operation, which breaks out into two characteristics of EO (establishing operations) and AO (abolishing operations). “The MO can be defined as an environmental variable that has two effects: value-altering and behavior altering effects; the value altering
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