Xóchitl, a BCBA who works in early intervention service delivery, has an 2-year-old autistic client who engages in restrictive and repetitive play with small figurines (e.g., lining them up, spinning wheels on cars). While she does not want to replace these play behaviors for her learner, she does want to increase different play behaviors as she knows play is a developmentally appropriate way in which young children learn. She plans to use things like a farm set to teach him to do different things such as feed the horse hay, collect eggs from the chiken coop, give the muddy pigs a bath, etc. Which type of schedule would most promote the variability (i.e., different kids) of play for Xóchitl’s client?

Like reinforcement, punishment has a discriminative stimulus which signals to the individual that engagement in the behavior is likely to contact punishment due to previous learning history.

The process of gradually increasing the response ratio or the duration of the time interval for reinforcement is known as _____. 

Punishment usually has a bad reputation in the general public; how can it be beneficial?  Identify and describe at least two guidelines for the effective use of punishment.  Identify and describe at least two potential side effects of using punishment.

Which of the following is another name for a conditioned reinforcer?

Give an example of exclusionary and non-exclusionary time out.

For a hospitalized patient who will require ongoing maintenance bronchodilator therapy after discharge, what should your end goal be?

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