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How Behavior Develops some important principles Behavior is strengthened or weakened by its consequences. Behavior ultimately responds better to positive consequences. Whether a behavior has been punished or reinforced is known only by the course of that behavior in the future. Behavior is largely a product of its immediate environment.
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| Principle Four |
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Behavior is largely a product of its immediate environment. |
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It is not possible to make sense out of a child's behavior without first making sense out of the environment within which that behavior occurs. |
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Think of it this way. If you are repeatedly spending money on costly automobile repairs made necessary because the road you travel is in such bad condition as to be forever destructive to your car, no amount of money spent fixing the car is going to have any lasting benefit on how well the car operates unless the road gets fixed or you go a different way. |
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How well the car operates isn't a function of how much time it spends being repaired. How well the car operates depends upon the condition of the road over which it travels every day. |
| Fix the road and you "fix" the car. And so it is with children. Their behavior is simply a response to forces in the environment that get their behavior going (we call these cues and prompts), and forces in the environment that keep them going (we call these consequences). |
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So the question isn't, "What's the matter with that kid?" the question is, "What's the matter with the environment?" Fix the environment and you fix the behavior. |
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