PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Attention Seeking, Cd Player
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Ignoring the behavior: removing reinforcing items or activities, removing the learner from the environment. Is each time the target behavior occurs and one of these procedures is used: the steps for implementing an extinction program include: Teachers/practitioners identify the function of the behavior as one of the following: securing attention, accessing tangible items, escaping/avoiding a task or situation, sensory reinforcement, creating an intervention plan. Planned ignoring: having the team ignore the problem behavior, teacher turns away from the student when she screams because she cannot complete the math problem. Escape extinction: preventing a student from avoiding or escaping an undesirable task or situation, not sending a student home for disruptive behavior when the student wants to leave school. Sensory extinction: preventing sensory feedback that is reinforcing an interfering behavior, consistently blocking a student from turning a classroom light switch on and off repeatedly for visual self-stimulation.
