Explain 3 different ways a DRO interval can be increased.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 2The title of this chapter is Decreasing Behavior with Differential Reinforcement. This title seems a little odd because, by definition, reinforcement increases the future probability of a behavior. Explain how a behavior is decreased through differential reinforcement. Be sure you are clear about the principles of behavior at work in your explanation.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 3Before you use a chaining procedure, it is recommended that you task analyze the skill to be taught. What does it mean to task analyze a skill?
a. Make a sequential list of all the smaller substeps of the task to be trained.
b. Plan your prompting strategy carefully.
c. Conduct a reinforcer assessment prior to beginning training.
d. Analyze the response class and reinforce successive approximations to the terminal behavior.
Ques. 4When selecting a DRA/DRI response, one should select a behavior that is not in the learners current repertoire in order to avoid accidentally reinforcing something associated with problem behavior.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 5What is the difference between momentary DRO and interval DRO?
a. Momentary DRO requires that the individual do anything other than the target problem behavior at the end of the interval. Interval DRO requires that the individual do anything other than the target problem behavior for the entire interval.
b. Momentary DRO requires that the individual do a response that is incompatible with the target problem behavior. Interval DRO does not have this requirement.
c. Momentary DRO is usually conducted for shorter time intervals than interval DRO.
d. Momentary DRO is usually more effective early on in intervention, whereas interval DRO is more effective later in intervention.
Ques. 6You would like to implement an interval DRO procedure with one of your students with autism to decrease hand flapping (so that you can get the student to attend to her work eventually). You conduct some baseline observations and find that the student stops flapping her hands for about 2 minutes on average. What would an appropriate initial DRO interval be?
a. 2 seconds
b. 2 minutes, 30 seconds
c. 1 minute, 45 seconds
d. 4 minutes
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