... a particular behaviour either because it is being triggered by a stimulus that frequently had been associated in time with another stimulus that would more normally have elicited the behaviour (classical conditioning); or because it had been followed by favourable consequences when we did it previously (operant conditioning); or because we had observed favourable consequences occur to someone else after they behaved that way (observational learning). A decrease in the behaviour would be expected to have occurred if the consequences had been adverse. Behavioural therapies assume that psychological disorders are a special form of learned behaviour, feeling or thought. The goal of behaviour modification is to use the principles of learning to replace unwanted behaviours or feelings or thoughts with preferred ones, by a new learning process (Laird, 1992). This essay will examine behaviour modification techniques and their application in the special education setting. Behaviour modification techniques, using the theories of ...

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