Reinforcement
Punishment
Conditioning/Learning
Behavior
Special
100

Jim gets some verbal praise for completing his homework early. Going forward, he completes his homework early every single week for the remainder of the school year.

Positive Reinforcement

100

Kosai chastises Justin for dropping a kiddo off the play structure. Justin doesn't engages in physical play on the play structure with his kiddos anymore. 

Reprimand (Positive Punishment)

100

Dave and Brittany learn to wait until they see a message from Scheduling in the lunchbreak channel before requesting a lunch for tomorrow, because that is what need to happen for the lunch request to be granted.

Operant Learning/Conditioning

100

Caroline chooses requesting to play tag as an adaptive behavior to teach her kiddo instead of running away. 

Replacement Behavior

100

McKenna sees that WiHa is interested in something in the classroom, but doesn't say anything and just waits to see what he does.

Prompt Delay

200

Cierra calls in sick on Monday. She was supposed to meet with Angie and Angie doesn't reschedule the meeting, so Cierra calls in sick every time she has a meeting with HR going forward.

Negative Reinforcement

200

Kosai has to run sprints everytime he smack talks one of his teammates in practice - over the course of the season, he smack talks less and less.

Contingent Exercise (Positive Punishment)
200

ZoAs used to feel happy when playing with blocks and listening to music. Ines engaged in this activity with her when they began working together, and now just seeing Ines causes ZoAs to feel happy feelings.

Respondent Learning 

200

While ZiKo doesn't have the prerequisite skills for functional replacements, he does have some basic listener responding and motor imitation tasks down pat. His BCBA needs to strategy to decrease his aggression.

DRI

200

Myah can't find her usual snack choices at Kroger, so she goes to Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and calls a meal delivery service looking for her usual snacks. 

Extinction-Induced Variability/Response Variation

300

IsMa is working on communicating with an AAC device to request food in the diner. Every time he pushes the "Cheez-It" button, the technician gives him a Cheez-It right away.

Immediacy

300

Taylor cancels the clinic pizza party that was scheduled for Friday because some technicians did not complete their notes from Monday. These technicians don't forget to do their notes ever again.

Response Cost (Negative Punishment)

300

Tatem has to wait until Katie's schedule for next week is made (which is usually around 2-3pm on Fridays) in order to be able to schedule her practicum meeting for the following week.

Variable Interval Schedule

300

Christian checks on his son every 20 minutes while he is making dinner and praises him if he is not beating up his toys.

Momentary DRO

300

RuJi sees Jordan open a locker door and pull out a big pillow. She walks away and then RuJi walks over to the locker door and opens it, looking for a pillow. 

Vicarious Reinforcement

400

Jasmine is someone the technicians all like to spend time with or be around because she buys people breakfast and lunch, gets coffere, organizes staff events, and provides a safe space for people to air out their grievances without judgment.

Generalized Conditioned Reinforcer

400
Hannah is a kleptomaniac and has been stealing from the classroom. His teacher catches him and locks him in the bathroom for 10 minutes as punishment, where he cannot access to toys or get attention from adults.

Seclusion (Negative Punishment)

400

Bill knows that he needs to get in the car on the right side to be able to drive in Europe, but on the left side to be able to drive in North America.

Multiple Schedule of Reinforcement

400

Sarah provides a visual aid and verbal warning 3 minutes before each transition she goes on with MalHa.

Priming

400

Aidan is having her kiddo list off items from the class of "fruits", but only allows him to use each individual fruit as an answer once per session. 

Lag Schedule of Reinforcement

500

PiAs gets to have extra gym time only if she remains at the group activity for at least 10 minutes.

Contingent/Specific

500

Ahmed has been shocked with a stun gun by Taylor every time swears on the floor. Now, Ahmed avoids Taylor even if she doesn't have the stun gun.

Conditioned Punisher

500

Natalie can choose work out or have drinks when she goes over to her friend's house on Saturday night. Her friend enjoys getting drinks and working out, but enjoys the works out much less in the evenings. Natalie typically chooses the drinks.

Matching Law

500

Knowing that her new kiddo loves Spongebob, Emily wears a Spongebob shirt to work on her first day working with him. 

Pairing

500

Brenden is working on teaching BiOs to select coping skills and use them proactively. Before presenting a transition, Brenden gives BiOs a stress ball, which is a coping skill but also his favorite toy. Brenden then presents the transition with a visual to pick a coping skill, which includes the stress ball, and BiOs chooses it.

Behavior Trap