Exam 11: Punishment

Why would punishment elicit escape and avoidance behaviors?

A teacher gives every student an envelope with five or more tickets in it. Students lose a ticket every time they engage in one of three inappropriate behaviors. The remaining tickets are placed in a grab bag and mixed up. The teacher draws three tickets and the students whose names appear on the tickets win a reward. What type of intervention is the teacher using?

Mr. Cutlip places Kevin in time-out for hitting Paul. If Kevin's aggression subsequently decreases, then time-out can be viewed as:

Rocky is a patient in a psychiatric hospital who throws furniture on the hospital ward. The staff psychologist successfully suppresses this behavior with punishment. However, Rocky subsequently begins throwing trays. What phenomenon has occurred?

Which principles should schools follow when implementing punishment?

What are the limitations of punishment? Explain the negative side effects and how these limitations affect students.

Response facilitation occurs when one inappropriate behavior is suppressed and another inappropriate behavior occurs.

Paige threw her sandwich across the cafeteria and hit Mr. Rubble in the arm. As a result of this behavior, Paige was required to clean up the whole cafeteria. This consequence is an example of:

Overcorrection is different from other punishment procedures because it focuses on the training of appropriate behaviors.

Under which of the following situations would planned ignoring be most effective?

Scotty bites his nails. He is taught to grasp a pencil every time he tries to bite his nails. What type of intervention is being employed?

In order for punishment to be optimally effective, it should be delivered at the end of a behavioral sequence.

Ms. Abercromby sees Bobby hit Jimmy. As a consequence, she has Bobby run a mile after school. What type of reductive procedure is she employing?

Itard is credited with being one of the first people to use time-out in an educational context.

Albert is a boy with autism who frequently bangs his head against the wall at school. His teacher decides to use a mild form of punishment to suppress this behavior. Although the intervention is effective in suppressing head-banging at school, the behavior increases considerably at home. This phenomenon is known as:

Which of the following should you do when implementing a response cost?

What are the similarities and differences between response cost and overcorrection? Which one do you think is used more in the classroom and why?

Mr. Smith has Harold wear a ribbon when he is exhibiting appropriate behavior. While Harold is wearing the ribbon, he receives a high density of positive reinforcement from his teachers. However, when Harold is misbehaving, the ribbon is removed, which signifies that reinforcement will be withheld for three minutes. Which form of time-out does this procedure illustrate?

Elmer's teacher requires him to stay in from recess as a punishment for not finishing his math assignment. While in from recess, Elmer's teacher helps him finish his assignment. Although Elmer finds recess reinforcing, he continues to get punished for not finishing his assignments. What phenomenon has occurred?

The least restrictive level of time-out is planned ignoring.