hi my name is May Beaubrun and I'm a board certified behavior analyst with Brett
DiNovi and Associates. In this video I'll be talking about motivating operations
specifically conditioned motivating operations. This falls under area B 12 of
the BACB task list which is defined and provide examples of motivating
operation. Conditioned motivating operations value alternate effects that
are learned which means the organism has a previous learning yesterday with the
stimuli. Condition motivating operations are neutral to the organisms before
they're paired with unconditioned motivating operations or reinforcement
or punishment. There are three types of conditioned motivating operations.
Surrogate condition motivating operations or CMO-S. Reflexive conditioned
motivating operations or CMO-R and transitive conditioned motivating
operations CMO-T. When describing surrogate conditioned motivating
operations it's a parent process in which a stimulus has acquired a
reinforcing value of another stimulus by accompanying a simulus that has acquired
its effectiveness as a motivating operation by accompanying another
motivating operation and now has the same value or behavior alternate effects
as a motivating operation that as a company. In other words when something is
paired with something else now can be interchanged for example if you always
sit at the dinner table for mealtime the table and hunger may be paired at the
CMOS sitting at the dinner table not at mealtime may evoke hunger as it acquired
motivating properties on its own. Let's review a more clinical example in
O'Reilly et all article the researchers found that diverted attention or being
attended someone else be function of the type of surrogate conditioned motivating
operation and evoke attention maintain problem behavior a potential
intervention is to provide social attention during diverted attention to
terminate or unpair the relationship between the surrogate condition motivating
operation of diverted attention and the motivating operation for attention.
Reflexive conditioned motivating operations or CMO-R is stimulus it
acquires effectiveness as a motivating operation by proceeding a situation that
either improves effectiveness of a reinforcer or worsens like a punisher. In other words
being associated by proxy in this example let's say you have a
little puppy who's not allowed on the couch but whenever you come home from
work the puppy's laying on the couch. You yell at the puppy to get off the
couch and the puppy runs up the stairs as a result the puppy avoids the
basement all together. The basement has become a CMO-R. The punishment applied
for being on the couch is associated with being in the basement and the dog
avoids the basement altogether. now let's discuss a clinical example in the Carr et
all article the researchers examine negatively reinforced problem behavior the
researchers demonstrated that pom behaviors decreased after a stimulus
change had been associated by proxy with removal of demands. The seamless change
was previously neutral but after preceding their mobile of demands became
a reflexive conditioned motivating operation. The last is the transitive condition
motivating operations or CMO-T obtains the environment that established or
abolishes the reinforcing value of another stimulus that evokes or beats a
behavior that has been reinforced by other stimuli. In other words you can't
have what you want until another problem is solved. In this example you want to
check a text message or an email but your phone is locked and you don't know
or don't have the password. The password becomes the CMO-T because of its
established reinforcing value of the passcode to access the message or the
email is reinforcing so you need the password or you want the password just
as much as you want to check that an email or message. In a clinical example
the researchers in the Sunberg et all article contrive transitive conditioned
motivating operations in order to teach children with autism demand a request
for information. During the experiment a toy was initially presented in a
container for the child to play with the empty container or transitive
conditioned motivating operation evoked the prompted man for information or
where's the toy before the child would access or ask for the toy. We would love
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