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Instrumental applications: Skinner’s Operant Learning

 

http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/LSwenson/Learning511/L11RAPP.html

                                              

                                                                   

1) Learned Helplessness

2) Behavioral therapies

Behavioral modification

a. systematic desensitization

1)Wolpe and phobia

2)anxiety control

a)agoraphobia

3)depression management

4) biofeedback: regulate heartrate, migrane, sexual dysfunctions, asthma etc.

brainwaves and ESB

stress/Cleveland

 

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5) Classroom modification

Premack to Inclusion

 

6) token economies:poker chips and coupons to groom, interact, behave.

7) Animal training:high-tech robots for disabled or vision impaired

8) computer-assisted instruction(CAI) learn at own

rate. (classroom, teaching employees).

Summary: General target audience: prisons, children (classrooms), mentally ill, elderly, physically challenged.Target areas:obesity

smoking drinking drug control