As a result of learning to kick grapefruits (the initial important change or cusp), Pelé accessed (1) new environments, (2) new reinforcers, (3) new soccer moves, (4) dropped competing behaviors (smoking), and (5) gained international acclaims for his skill.
In this non-example, learning to open doors that lead outside resulted in consequences that did not directly benefit the child and maybe decrease important skills related to exploration and search.
New contingencies establish the control of new stimuli over our behaviors, and therefore make us more sensitive and aware of our surrounding.
New environments regulate, maintain, and set the micro-cultural boundaries for reinforcers (and punishers), and their antecedents.
They include tools and stakeholders controlling the pace and content of instruction and, as a result, they regulate boundary of what the learner learns (e.g., school curriculum).
Some proposals have been put forward to explain how conscious organisms achieve passing into new frames of reference.
Semiotic Matrix Theory (SMT), its pansemiosis, describes falsifiable existential and cognitive heuristics of recognizing Energy requirements, Safety concerns and Possibility or Opportunity as “passing” functions.
Effect on others comes from the learner's behavior affecting the stakeholders who control reinforcers and punishers in a specific environment.
All stakeholders (e.g., government officials, teachers, parents, and other interventionists) should agree to the goals, methods, and tools for the intervention and the norms from the local community suggest the boundaries of what should be learned.
The first applications of the concept derive from a set of guidelines proposed by Bosch and Fuqua in The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
Future research will elucidate the nature and parameters of the criteria and the tools used in the selection and sequencing of skills.
[10][11] As importantly, the existing parameters (proposed by Rosales-Ruiz, Baer, Bosch, & Fuqua) provides justifications for behavioral interventions.