Behavior Reduction Interventions Flashcards
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A student loses 5 minutes of free time every time they engage in property destruction. This is an example of:
Answer: Negative punishment (response cost)
Response cost is a form of negative punishment in which a specific amount of a reinforcer is removed contingent on a target behavior.
Which type of time-out involves removing the student from the reinforcing environment and placing them in a less stimulating area (e.g., a partitioned corner of the room)?
Answer: Exclusionary time-out
Exclusionary time-out removes the individual from the reinforcing environment to a separate, non-locked area while keeping them in the same room or nearby.
Positive practice overcorrection requires the individual to:
Answer: Repeatedly practice the correct form of the behavior
Positive practice overcorrection requires the individual to repeatedly perform the appropriate behavior contingent on each instance of the problem behavior.
Functional Communication Training (FCT) reduces problem behavior primarily by:
Answer: Teaching a replacement communicative response that accesses the same reinforcer
FCT teaches the individual an appropriate communicative response (e.g., using a card or verbal request) that produces the same reinforcer as the problem behavior.
Which differential reinforcement procedure is MOST appropriate when the goal is to reduce the overall rate of a behavior but not eliminate it completely?
Answer: DRL
Differential Reinforcement of Low rates (DRL) reinforces the behavior when it occurs at or below a specified rate, making it ideal for reducing but not eliminating a behavior.
A practitioner requires a child to clean up all the toys they scattered AND all the toys already on the floor as a consequence for throwing toys. This procedure is best described as:
Answer: Restitutional overcorrection
Restitutional overcorrection requires the individual to restore the environment to a state better than it was before the problem behavior occurred.
To be effective, time-out from reinforcement requires that the environment from which the student is removed is:
Answer: Richly reinforcing
Time-out only functions as a punisher if the time-in environment is reinforcing; removing a student from a non-reinforcing environment is not time-out and will not reduce behavior.