Types of R+
Food, water, air, and warmth are examples of this type of reinforcement.
What is unconditioned reinforcement?
This is any stimulus (something that a sensory organ can experience) that will increase the likelihood of a behavior reappearing.
What is Reinforcement?
Courtney isn't sure what toy her client will be interested in today. She lays out a variety of toys in the room. How does she use this to determine reinforcers for her session?
Keep track of the items that the client is interested in and use those as reinforcers.
When your client is not demonstrating a skill, you need to pair this with reinforcement in order to elicit the correct response.
What is prompting?
When you hear the sound of your phone when you receive a text, you look at your phone. The sound is this type of reinforcer?
What is a conditioned reinforcer?
Adam's father asks him to wash his car. If he does a good job, his dad will give him $10 but if he does an AMAZING job, he will give him $20 dollars. This is an example of _______ reinforcement.
What is differential?
Erin's client has trouble making choices. What method can she use for determining effective reinforcers for her session?
Single stimulus trials: present 1 item and note whether or not client likes it.
I ask you to clean my entire house for $5. Why is this reinforcement not likely to work?
Giving a child squeezes is this type of reinforcer.
What is sensory?
"If you eat your dinner, then you can have a cookie" is an example of what principle?
What is Premack Principle?
Rashidat's client loves going to gym and also loves marshmallows. Which reinforcer makes more sense to use for a skill that she will be having her client do frequently throughout her session?
Giving her client marshmallows because going to the gym will be hard to do frequently throughout the session.
Sarah is working with her client on responding to peers. Whenever her client appropriately responds to peers, Sarah says "good job". Why is this not likely to be effective in getting her client to demonstrate this skills?
Praise should be specific to what the client does.
Addy's client likes singing songs, but LOVES dancing to videos. Which reinforcer makes more sense to use during a very non-preferred program for her client?
Using the reinforcer that the client loves will be more effective.
EATSS is an acronym for the types of reinforcers. What does the T stand for?
What is tangible?
Jen brings in donuts to reward therapists for getting their paperwork done on time. It works so well on the first day that she decides to bring in donuts everyday for 3 weeks? Why does this eventually stop functioning as a reinforcer?
The therapists have satiated on the donuts. She has not varied the reinforcers.
Avery gets 100% on his spelling test on Monday. As a reward his parents take him to Pinheads 2 weeks later. Why is this not effective for reinforcing his behavior?
The reinforcer is not immediate. He is not likely to understand what he did to earn reinforcement.
Kaitlyn's client likes to play tag as a reinforcer. What type of reinforcer is this?
What is Social?
Karrie's client is working on asking friends questions. When her client asks a friend a question, Karrie give him a token which will earn a break later in the session. She also notices that her client gets excited when one particular peer responses to him. Is the token or the peer response more of a naturalistic reinforcer?
The peer's response.
When Addy's client goes to OT, she notices that her client is having a hard time staying on task for the OT activities. The OT is having the client work for a break in the gym at the end of the session. The client really likes the gym, so why is this plan not working?
The reinforcement is not frequent enough and not immediate.
IF we don't want the client to think they receive a reinforcer every single time they exhibit a behavior, then we should increase the _____ between the response and receiving the reinforcement.
What is time?