Question

Principles of behavior describe how behavior works, and behavior-change tactics are how applied behavior analysts put the principles to work to help people learn and use socially significant behaviors.

a) true
b) false

Answer 1

True

Step-by-step explanation:

Principles of behavior is used to describe functional relation between behavior and one or more of its controlling variables.

It is true that principles of behavior describe how behavior works, and

Behavior-change tactics are how applied behavior analysts put the principles to work to help people learn and use socially significant behaviors.

There are basically four principles of human behavior. Namely:

1. Behavior is a product of its immediate environment.

2. Behavior is either strengthened or weakened by its consequences.

3. Behavior responds better to positive than to negative consequences.

4. Whether a behavior has been punished or reinforced is known only by the course of that behavior in the future.