PSYCO282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Reinforcement, Stimulus Control

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO282
• Professor: Karsten A.Loepelmann

Document Summary

Using punishment: time-out and response cost: punishment procedures are used only after functional interventions have been implemented or considered. The specific request, close proximity, and eye contact became a discrimitive stimulus (less likely to refuse because refusal was punished by time-out: time-out the loss of access to positive reinforces for a brief period contingent on the problem behaviour. This removes the person from all sources of positive reinforcement: punishment should be used with a differential reinforcement procedure. Because the time-out procedure eliminates access to positive reinforcers contingent on the problem behaviour, it is important for the person to have access to positive reinforces through a dra or dro procedure (or an ncr procedure). The procedure decreased the level of disruptive and aggressive behaviour of the children in the day care program: response cost removal of a specified amount of a reinforce contingent on the occurrence of a problem behaviour.