What is Behaviour?

This is something that i adapted from various reading material and research. I wanted to be able to give people/teachers etc the right information without all that jargon. This section one of five..more to come later. i can't give ya'll everything all at once..lol you must have a reason to come back and visit. :)

What Is Behaviour? How To Assess It.


REACTIVE approaches such as punishment fail to teach the person acceptable REPLACEMENT behaviours and may reinforce the inappropriate behaviour

The success of an intervention hinges on;

1) understanding WHY the person behaves in a certain way;

2) looking beyond the behaviour and replacing it with a more suitable one that serves the SAME purpose (or results in the same outcome)

Remember the WHY; driven by 2 principles

All behaviour serves a PURPOSE; it allows them to GET something desirable; ESCAPE or AVOID something undesirable; or to COMMUNICATE some other message or need.

Behaviour occurs in a particular context; certain SETTINGS, certain CONDITIONS, certain ACTIVITIES

They will only change their existing behaviour if another behaviour will prove more effective in achieving the same goals