Lesson 14: Differential Reinforcement Live Action

Choose the FALSE statement regarding overcorrection

Overcorrection is a type of positive punishment because you aren't hurting the individual

Mila yells and claps during her math class. After doing so, the teacher immediately says "Mila, Stop yelling! You are disrupting the class and misbehaving." The next few days, Mila's screaming increases substantially. The teacher's scolding most likely serves as ___________

Positive Reinforcement

Whenever Mary's cats get near her plants she sprays them with water. over time the cats do not get close to the plants. What type of procedure is mary using?

Positive punishment

Planned ignoring can be defined as removing a __________ reinforcer, such as attention, physical contact, or verbal interaction for a brief period of time ________ on the presence of the target behavior.

Social, contingent

Choose the best example of negative reinforcement:

Timmy can't stand to hear his sister cry, when he gives her his cookies, she immediately stops. Now, every time she cries he gives her his cookies.

Choose the best example of punishment:

Timmy is playing with a hairpin while his mom brushes his hair. He puts the pin into the light socket and gets a shock. In the future, he doesn't touch the hairpins or the light socket.

Choose the best example of time out:

Timmy is playing with his friend during recess, but pushes one of them off the seat he wanted. His teacher takes him away from his friends and he must sit next to her for 5 min before returning to play. His pushing behavior decreases over time.

Select the best example of DRA

Tommy picks his nose...

T or F:In order to assume a behavior is maintained by automatic reinforcement you must first rule out social reinforcers.

True

Which of the following is an example of positive punishment:

When Lucy pulls her friend Felicia's hair, Felicia yells "Boo!" loudly. Lucy no longer tries to pull Felicia's hair

Select the correct example for planned ignoring:

Whenever Laura says, "What's up doc, is it rabbit season?" Her therapist turns away from her for 1 min. She then turns back and returns to the previous conversation. With time Laura stops saying "What's up doc, is it rabbit season?" when conversing with her therapist.

Which of the following exemplifies escape/avoidance as function of behavior?

Whenever the RBT asks Johnny to work on math he swipes the work off the table. He then gets sent to his room. The swiping behavior continues in the future

When placing a behavior on extinction you should:

Withhold the reinforcer that usually follows the behavior, so the contingent relationship will break and the behavior will decrease.

Which of the following is true:

A stimulus is only a punisher if it reduces the future frequency of the behavior that precedes it

The word "positive" in positive reinforcement refers to:

Adding a stimulus to the environment

Soothing someone who is crying out is an example of:

Attention, social positive reinforcement

Tommy has a stomachache, in the past softly tapping on his stomach with an open palm has helped him burp and feel better. What can we hypothesize is maintaining his behavior of tapping on his stomach?

Automatic negative, the behavior is maintained by the termination of the stomachache

When Laura comes home, she drops her sweater on the floor. Her mom sees this and has Laura pick up everything that is out of place in the room (including the sweater). Next time Laura comes home, when she enters her room she hangs her sweater in the closet. Why is this an example of over correction?

Because she was required to pick everything off the floor which requires more effort and in the future the behavior of throwing a sweater on the floor decreased

Choose the best example of response cost.

Both are examples of response cost

Punishment is defined as ___ presentation or removal of stimuli ___ a response that ___ the future frequency of that response

Contingent, after, decreases

Reinforcer can be defined as: _____ presentation or removal of a stimulus ____ a response that ____ the future frequency of that response

Contingent, after, increases

Extinction is defined as: Breaking the ____________ relationship between the response and the ____________.The ________________ that usually follows a behavior is no longer provided ____________the behavior.

Contingent, consequence, consequence, after

Positive reinforcement is the presentation of a stimulus ____ on a response that ___ the frequency of that response in the future.

Contingent, increases

Select the best example for Automatic Negative Reinforcement maintained behavior.

Cutting finger nails to reduce length that is bothersome

Which two procedures make up the Differential Reinforcement?

Extinction and Reinforcement

True or false: In order to say a stimulus is reinforcing a behavior, the behavior will decrease over time

False

Which of the following is an example of a socially mediated consequence?

Jenny needs a napkin, she asks her mom for one and she gives it to her

Choose the best example of overcorrection:

Jill overflowed the tub when taking a bath, her mother had her dry the spilt water, clean the sink, and asked her not to do that again. Jill never let the water overflow again.

Choose the best example of reinforcement:

Laura is learning to tie her shoes, when she ties them independently her mom gives her praise and a high five, over time Laura ties her shoes correctly and independently more and more often.

Which of the following is an example of positive reinforcement ?

Laura loves cookies, in the past mom has given her a cookie after she bumped her leg against a table to cheer her up. Now, when she wants a cookie Laura bumps into the table.

Timmy will kick his mom whenever he needs her to move, he is a small child and doesn't have enough strength to hurt the mom. Mom always quickly moves aside while reprimanding Timmy and reminding him it isn't nice to kick people. Select the best description of putting Timmy's "kicking" behavior on extinction:

Mom doesn't move from where she is until Timmy stops kicking her.

What type of consequence is planned ignoring?

Negative punishment

What type of procedure is response cost?

Negative punishment

Every time Aiden has a headache he takes aspirin. Soon after, his headache dissipates and completely goes away. The following example best depicts:

Negative reinforcement in the form of escape

Is the following an example of reinforcement? A client washed his hands independently for the first time. You immediately provided praise along with a cookie. The next several sessions, the client no longer washes his hands independently.

No, this is not positive reinforcement. Although the behavior resulted in the delivery of an appetitive stimulus, the future frequency did not increase

Timmy is incredibly bored during dinner and doesn't want to eat his peas. He begins to flick the peas at his sister. When his mom saw him, she sent him to his room and told him he is not allowed to come out until the family is finished with dinner. Is this a good example of time out?

Not enough information provided

Your phone is running out of battery and you ask your friend to lend you a charger. She then quickly provides you with the charger. In the future, when your phone is dying, you continue to ask your friend for the charger. This represents:

Positive reinforcement

Positive Punishment: Contingent __________of an __________ ________ after a response that_________ the future frequency of the response.

Presentation, aversive stimulus, decreases

Response cost is defined as: Contingent on the target behavior, a defined amount of ___________ is lost, resulting in a(n) ____________ in the frequency of the behavior in the future.

Reinforcement, decrease

Negative reinforcement is defined as contingent ____ of a stimulus after a response that ____ the future frequency of that response

Removal, Increases

Choose the best example of social negative reinforcement

Roger's and Johnny's behaviors are both maintained by social negative reinforcement

Tommy is in his room playing alone; he then grabs a toy and slams it against the wall making a loud noise. His mom comes into the room and reprimands him. In the future when he is alone he slams things that make loud noises more often. What is this example of?

Social Positive, mom is providing attention and this served as a reinforcer

Dana is doing homework with her son. When he gets stuck on a difficult problem she solves it for him so that he doesn't cry. If we are focusing on Dana's behavior what type of function does her behavior have?

Social negative reinforcement, she avoids Tommy's crying

Choose an appropriate alternative behavior to yelling for attention

Tapping your mom's leg so she looks towards you

Select the true statement about time out :

Time out is a type of negative punishment