Punishment

Extinction

Overcorrection

Stimulus Satiation

Pain-Inducing Punishers

Reprimands

Response Cost

Time Out

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• ​What are some strategies for using operant conditioning to change behavior?

• What are some specific examples of each?

Open Ended

When you hear "punishment" what do you think or feel?

Draw

Punishment feelings

​Punishment

To punish or not to punish...​

Draw

In the case of....

Draw

In the case of...

Draw

In the case of...

Multiple Choice

Ted lost his job one day for arguing with the boss. As a result, in his subsequent jobs, he never again argued with the boss. This is best described as an example of

• negative reinforcement

• extinction

• negative punishment

• positive punishment

Multiple Choice

Being punched in the face for being rude is a(n) _____ while getting a demerit point for speeding is a(n) _____.

• secondary punisher; intrinsic punisher

• primary punisher; secondary punisher

• extrinsic punisher; intrinsic punisher

• primary punisher; intrinsic punisher

​Types of Punishment

​Pain-inducing or physical punishers

Consequences following behavior activate pain receptors or other sense receptors that evoke discomfort​

​Reprimands

Strong, aversive, verbal stimuli contingent on behavior

Sometimes accompanied by aversive facial expressions or gestures

​Types of Punishment

Multiple Choice

Jorge was given an extra homework assignment after making faces at the teacher one day. He never again made faces at the teacher. This is best described as an example of

• avoidance conditioning

• extinction

• negative punishment

• positive punishment

​Time-Out

One or more desirable stimuli are removed as a result of undesirable behavior…sometimes removal from ongoing activity

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Move individual from a more reinforcing to a less reinforcing situation​

​Types of Punishment

Multiple Choice

Ideally, a time-out procedure should be

• followed by positive reinforcement of appropriate behavior.

• fairly long.

• combined with a response cost procedure.

• all of these.

Multiple Choice

Solitary confinement in prison, to the extent that it is effective, is an extreme example of a _____ procedure.

• response cost

• time-out

• positive punishment

• negative reinforcement

​Response Cost

Removal of a specified amount of reinforcer following an undesirable behavior

​Types of Punishment

Take away phone or keys

Put toy out of reach​

Multiple Choice

Having one's car towed away for parking in a no parking zone is most similar to a _____ procedure.

• time out

• positive punishment

• response cost

• negative reinforcement

Multiple Choice

Specific is to general as ____ is to ____.

• negative punishment; positive punishment

• positive punishment; negative punishment

• time out; response cost

• response cost; time out

Multiple Choice

Making a child sit in a corner for being too noisy is an attempted ____ procedure, while turning off the television for being too noisy is an attempted ____ procedure

• response cost; time-out

• time-out; response cost

• negative punishment; positive punishment

• positive punishment; negative punishment

Multiple Choice

When the frequency of a behavior declines because performing the behavior no longer leads to something, the process involved is called

• negative punishment

• positive punishment

• extinction

• negative reinforcement

​Extinction

Remove the reinforcer that follows behavior and wait for the behavior to fade

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​Types of Punishment

Ignore

No more candy at checkout

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Multiple Choice

Jessica whines for extra helpings when she is given dessert at the dinner table. In order to put an end to the whining, her mom decides to stop giving her extra dessert when she whines for it. Her mom is attempting to use a(n) ____ procedure.

• positive punishment

• negative punishment

• negative reinforcement

• extinction

Multiple Choice

Jessica whines for extra helpings when she is given dessert at the dinner table. In order to put an end to the whining, her mom decides to take away all of her dessert whenever she whines. Her mom is attempting to use a(n) ____ procedure.

• positive punishment

• negative punishment

• negative reinforcement

• extinction

Multiple Choice

No longer getting a cookie is to ____ as removal of a cookie is to ____.

• extinction; negative punishment

• extinction; positive punishment

• positive punishment; negative punishment

• negative punishment; positive punishment

​Overcorrection

Several repetitions of more desirable behavior

Repairing damage of undesirable behavior​

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​Types of Punishment

Restitution

  Positive Practice

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Multiple Choice

Sami draws on the wall with crayons. Her dad makes her clean the crayon off the call and also a much larger section of the wall. Which method of behavior change is being used?

• negative reinforcement

• negative punishment

• time-out

• overcorrection

​Stimulus Satiation

Decrease value of reinforcer by overpresentation of the reinforcer​

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​Types of Punishment

Strike the whole box

Multiple Choice

Unlike positive reinforcement, punishment has the strongest effect on behavior when it is

• immediate

• delayed

• delivered on a continuous schedule

• delivered on an intermittent schedule

Multiple Choice

Basic problems with the use of punishment in the legal system is that the punishing consequence is typically

• delayed

• intermittent

• too severe

• both a and b are correct