Task List Section : D

The individual behaves to get focused attention from teachers, siblings, peers, parents, or others around them.

• Escape Function

• Access to Tangibles Function

• Attention Function

• Automatic Reinforcement Function

The individual behaves in a certain way to get a preferred item or participate in a preferred activity.

• Escape Function

• Access to Tangibles Function

• Attention Function

• Automatic Reinforcement Function

The individual behaves in order to get out of or avoid doing something he/she does not want to do.

• Escape Function

• Access to Tangibles Function

• Attention Function

• Automatic Reinforcement Function

The individual behaves in a certain way because it feels good to them. Also referred to as sensory.

• Escape Function

• Access to Tangibles Function

• Attention Function

• Automatic Reinforcement Function

No longer providing reinforcement to a previously reinforced behavior.

• Extinction

• Punishment

• Overcorrection

• Response Cost

Consequence to an undesirable behavior in an effort to decrease the behavior.

• Extinction

• Punishment

• Overcorrection

• Response Cost

Having a learner engage in repetitive behavior as a penalty for having displayed inappropriate behavior.

• Extinction

• Punishment

• Overcorrection

• Response Cost

Often used with a token economy. Removing access to a preferred item or access to reinforcement in response to undesirable behavior.

• Extinction

• Punishment

• Overcorrection

• Response Cost

Loss of access to positive reinforcers for a specified period of time.

• Response Cost

• Time Out

• Punishment

• Overcorrection

Adding an aversive stimulus to the environment as the consequence to an undesirable behavior in an effort to decrease the behavior.

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment