Your active participation in the weekly discussions is important to the shared learning experience. Active discussions will also develop your community of professionals. Please participate as early in the week as possible to help promote a robust discussion.
After you have completed the readings, post your initial response to the following discussion. Your post should respond to all parts of the topic(s) in complete sentences, and should extend the discussion of the group by including original thoughts or ideas with support from multiple academic outside sources and/or course materials, correctly using APA style, both in-text and complete reference at the end of the post.
After you have submitted your initial post, review other posts and respond to multiple classmates. Your response to other classmates should ask follow-up questions or provide additional ideas that expand on the topic. Be sure to post your responses over multiple days throughout the unit week as this helps promote a real discussion. Refer to your Discussion Board Rubric for a specific grading explanation.
Understanding Stimulus and Response Classes
Complete the readings and the before you attempt the discussion question.
Stimulus events can be discussed in terms of their features and relationships to behavior (physical, temporal, & functional). Changes in stimuli occur both as antecedent and consequence events, which affect an individual’s response. Think about some of your own response patterns that occur. Within a specific example, identify a set of antecedent stimuli that would demonstrate a stimulus class that influences your response(s), clearly explaining what establishes those stimuli as a stimulus class. Next, discuss your current response(s) to that stimulus class that make up a functional or structural response. Are there other responses that would fit to create a response class? Finally, what specific environmental modifications could you make to alter the stimulus-response relationship?
Review two of your classmates’ responses using following ideas as a guide:
- Provide feedback on your peer’s example of a stimulus class.
- Are the response class examples clearly and accurately stated?
- Offer an additional suggestion for environmental modifications given this stimulus-response relationship.
- Ask at least one thoughtful follow up question.