Behavior management helps people maintain positive behaviors and reduce behaviors that interfere with learning, well-being, or participation. This lesson introduces the purpose of behavior management, two influential perspectives, and practical classroom strategies.
Behavior management is a comparatively less-intensive approach that guides behavior over time. It emphasizes maintaining positive habits and reducing negative ones, rather than focusing only on changing a particular behavior. It can help educators, healthcare workers, and supported-living staff foster fulfilling, productive, and socially appropriate behavior in individuals and groups.
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How is behavior management different from behavior modification?
Behavior management is a less-intensive form of guidance that emphasizes maintaining positive habits and reducing negative ones; behavior modification focuses more directly on changing behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
Adding or providing something valued after a behavior in order to make that behavior more likely in the future.
What classroom purpose can a token economy serve?
Students earn tokens for specified behaviors and can exchange them for agreed rewards, making expectations and reinforcement more systematic.
What distinguishes a High Card from a Low Card response?
A Low Card is less invasive, such as a private reminder or seating change. A High Card is a stronger intervention, such as a referral to the office or contacting home.
What do Blue and Orange cards represent in Purkey's theory?
Blue cards represent encouraging ways to reinforce a student's worth; Orange cards represent critical or demeaning approaches that can damage self-worth.
Quiz questions
A behavior becomes more likely after an unpleasant condition is removed. Which process is illustrated?Answer: Negative reinforcement
Which consequence fits negative punishment?Answer: Removing a valued privilege to reduce a behavior.
What does modeling mean in efforts to encourage prosocial behavior?Answer: Demonstrating a behavior for others to observe.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?Answer: A change in behavior that can occur when people know they are being observed.
Which set names the five domains in David Rock's SCARF model?Answer: Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness