Name That Consequence
Jonny is given a high-five by his teacher, each time he raises his hand before speaking. The rate in which Jonny raises his hand before speaking is increasing.
What is positive reinforcement
Punishment is our first behavioural technique
What is false (should never be the first tool)
Provides zero probability of reinforcement
What is extinction as a behaviour change tactic
Teaching to point instead of grabbing
What is a DRI
Attention, Automatic, Escape, and Access to Tangibles
What is the 4 main functions of behaviour
Sarah is impatient, she hates waiting at red lights. If the car ahead does not immediately progress through when the light changes to green, she will blast her horn to get them moving. Sarah blasts her horn a lot...it works every time!
Negative Reinforcement (Escape)
Punishment is effective when...
What is immediate delivery
The procedure of withholding/discontinuing reinforcement of a previously reinforced behaviour, resulting in the decrease of that behaviour. For this procedure to be effective, one must identify and withhold all possible sources of reinforcement that maintain the target behaviour.
What is extinction as a principle
Teaching to request instead of screaming
What is DRA
Tony hits himself in the head frequently, throughout the course of the school day. He typically engages in this behaviour whether he is alone or with others. This might be the function of his behaviour
What is automatic reinforcement
Emma loves free choice time. If she does not get her math finished in time, she is not allowed to participate and must keep working. Emma's teacher has noticed that more and more she is getting her math work completed on time.
What is negative punishment
How often should punishment procedures be reviewed by the BCBA?
What is daily
True or False - Extinction may fail because a desirable alternative behaviour was not appropriately strengthened
What is true
In this type of DRO, the behaviour can occur, just not at the time when we're measuring
Momentary DRO
This is 1 thing to consider when choosing a replacement skill/behaviour
What is that the skill is easy to learn, easy to perform, already in the student's repertoire, or functionally equivalent
When Sam and Jane are playing, Jane will often grab toys from Sam. Each time this happens, Sam hits Jane. Jane has learnt her lesson and no longer grabs toys from Sam!
What is positive punishment (unconditioned punisher)
The right to safe and humane treatment that uses the least restrictive punisher first with safeguards in place
What is ethical considerations
What schedule of reinforcement typically occurs before extinction is put into place compared to when extinction is put in as a procedure
What is intermittent reinforcement vs. continuous reinforcement
Steve runs too quickly that his shins have started to hurt. The trainer decides to slow down the speed. The time between each foot-step is
What is DRL (inter-response time)
You walk into a party and the pick-me girls there saying, "oh my gosh, this is exactly why I only have guy friends!"
What is attention
Colton loves the Elephant and Piggie books. Everyday before story time he begs and cries for his teacher to read the books. Colton's teacher always reads the books, as his crying really upsets her. Colton cries a lot and his teacher reads a lot of Elephant and Piggie books.
What is positive reinforcement (Colton) and negative reinforcement (teacher)
Two university students get into a fight at the bar but one is handcuffed and taken to county jail for the night
What is negative punishment (exclusionary time-out - participant removed from time-in setting)
The behaviour gets worse before it gets better
What is extinction burst
Your new beau love-bombed you but is now zombie-ing the situation-ship and texting is non-existent. RED FLAG. You vow that next time, you'll only text 1 to 2 times a day
What is DRL
A student is breaking objects when it's time to start the bedtime routine. The family lets their kid stay up a bit more each night
What is escape maintained behaviour