Reinforcement

Differential reinforcement procedures are programs that are used to reinforce acceptable behavior in order to decrease the occurrence of undesirable behavior. Differential reinforcement also ensures that undesirable behavior is not reinforced. A range of problem behaviors, particularly self-injurious behavior is treated with differential reinforcement procedures. Summary of Research Differential reinforcement has several variations. The first variation is called Differential Reinforcement of…

Reinforcement schedules are important to understand in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis, and in the establishment of new behaviors. When examining the task analysis for a new client, it is important to determine the schedule of reinforcement. According to Cooper et al., (2007), a fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement determines how many responses should be completed to produce the reinforcer, and provide a high rate of responding for the high rate of reinforcement (p.306). For example,…

use of positive reinforcement has a much better outcome than if punishment were to be used, This was the idea of B.F. Skinner, a well-known psychologist from the 1970’s who enlightened the world with his behavioral techniques. Skinner believed that the use of positive reinforcement helped to shape a beings behavior verses punishment. He proved his theory when he trained his rats to push a lever by frequent and scheduled rewards and birds to peck plates using his positive reinforcement ideas. He…

The seventh-grade teacher, Ann used a token economy technique to modify Paul’s behavior of getting out of his seat and walking around. This method provides positive reinforcement to a child by awarding him or her with tokens, stickers, check marks, or stars when they behaved in a desired way. The schedule of reinforcement Ann is using is known as fixed interval schedule since she has broken down Paul’s target behavior into 5-minute intervals in which he is to perform the task. After the 5-minute…

What is “reinforcement”? There are two types of reinforcement: positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement. With positive reinforcement, you add something desirable in order to increase a certain response. For example, when a child uses manners, the parent rewards the child with praise or a sign of approval. The child will then do more in order to get that response from their parent. With negative reinforcement, you add an uncomfortable situation or take something away to make the…

behavior needs to be reinforced immediately and consistently. Reinforcement needs to be presented each time initially, and then reinforcement can be provided on a more intermittent basis” (page 8). When it comes to reinforcement and rewards it is extremely important for a student with ASD to have this behavior modification strategy in place. When a student has an emotional outburst sometimes they can harm either themselves or others. Reinforcement for good behavior is crucial, and according to…

The purpose of this case study is to evaluate the benefits of positive reinforcement in a social group setting for the elderly. Sometimes after the elderly are left in a retirement community by their family or some other reason, they are often left alone and with little to do. They are cared for by the medical staff and those who keep them fed to make sure that their physical needs are met, but that leaves it up to someone else to fulfill their social, mental and emotional needs. In the Bible…

points are added onto our test grade if we have not missed class more than three times that semester. This positive reinforcement has made me want to be present everyday for class because I know I will get the five bonus points if I do not miss this class. However, if I do miss class more than three times I will not receive the five bonus points on the test. Positive reinforcement is a principle of operant conditioning that I have used to train my dogs. I have a border collie that my mom and I…

Negative reinforcement is not to be confused with punishment, as negative reinforcement increases a behavior and punishment decreases a behavior. Punishment can be positive punishment or negative punishment, just as with reinforcement. Punishment can decrease a behavior by using an adverse stimuli (positive punishment), or by removing a desired stimuli (negative punishment).Positive reinforcement is the addition of something desirable following a behavior-something…

rooster, who had learnt to peck at three different coloured keys on schedules of reinforcement. The left red key related to the fixed interval (FI), the white middle key for the variable interval (VI) and the right green key for the differential reinforcement (DRL) for a total of 270 seconds, 90 seconds per key schedule. The importance of operant conditioning allowed for control over timing and when a positive reinforcement was given in order to encourage the appropriate behaviour and when it…