Antecedent Manipulations

Antecedent Manipulations

1. Decreasing Behavior

   • Increasing response effort
     • Ex: A dieter reaches for a cookie when walking by the cookie jar. An antecedent strategy would be placing the cookie jar in a hard to reach place.
   • Diminishing the EO
     • Ex: NCR
   • Eliminating the SD
     • Ex: In classroom, boy pulls hair of the girl who sits in front of him. Eliminating the SD would be the teacher moving the boy's seat

2. Increasing Behavior

   • Providing the SD
     • Ex: For a toddler that is aggressive to peers an antecedent strategy would be to place more toys in the environment.
   • Enhancing the EO
     • Ex: Deprivation
   • Decreasing the response effort
     • Ex: Placing trash cans near the entrances and exits of stadiums, universities, etc.