Know Your Behavior: Contingency Contracting Behavioral Contract

1. Know Your
Behavior
Applied Behavior
Analysis

2. We Are Going To Focus
On:
Contingency Contracting

3. Definition
◦ Permanent Product: Measurement takes place after behavior has occurred.
◦ Treatment Packages: BASP: Treatment plan that written for BCBA, Parents,
Caregivers, and others.
◦ Self- Management: Behavior (controlling response) that a person purposefully
emits to influence another Behavior (controlled response)
◦ Delayed Reinforcement: reinforcement that delayed.

4. Definition
◦ Rule Governance: behavior that has been generated through exposure to rule,
specifying the consequence without directly experiencing it.
◦ Repertoire: Collection of knowledge & skills an individual knows.
◦ Response Prompting: prompt that operate directly on the response.

5. Contingency Contracting
AKA Behavioral Contract
Contingency: the contingent relationship between
the individual exhibiting a certain behavior & a
certain reinforcer.
Contract: a permanent product (written) that
stipulates the contingency in detail that all parties
design & sign.
Permanent Product
Used in Treatment Packages (BASP)
Can lead to Self- Management & Self- Contract
Delayed Reinforcement
Rule Governance
Response Prompting

6. 3component
Behavior
Reward
Data

7. Behavior: Description of
the behavior
What?
Behavior
Definition
Who?
Individual (s)
When?
(Start/ End/
Renewal)
How?
Repertoire
Mastered/ %
Evidence?
Permanent
Product

8. Reward: Description of
the Reward
Reward
Who will give the
reward?
What is the
reward?
When the reward
will be giving?
How much the
reward?

9. Data: Behavior Data
Who
Will
take the
Data
When
Will the
data be
reviewed/
Graphed
Where
Is data
recorded
on the
behavior

10. Example

11. ◦Individuals:
◦ Giver: Dad
◦ Behaver : Nancy
◦Behavior: Draws on the wall
by crayons, markers, pencil,
or paint
◦When:
◦ Start: Monday Morning
◦ End: Sunday Afternoon
◦ Renewal: Every Monday
Morning
◦ Repertoire: Nancy knows there
is a lot of papers that she can
draw on.
◦ Evidence (Permeant Product):
No drawing on the wall by
crayons, markers, pencil, or paint.
◦ Reward: Dad will take Nancy to
art store/ toy store to buy $5
worth of art supplies/ toy.
◦ Data: Dad will collect data every
day at night.

12. Reference ◦ Cooper J.O, Heron T.E, Heward W.L. Applied behavior
analysis (2nd ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson; 2007.

13. Know Your
Behavior
Thank
You