Deck 8: Positive Punishment

Question 1

You try to put on your tight jeans after eating too much.

A) Positive reinforcement
B) Negative reinforcement
C) Positive punishment
D) Negative punishment

Answer 1

C

Question 2

You take of your aversively tight jeans

A) Positive reinforcement
B) Negative reinforcement
C) Positive punishment
D) Negative punishment

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Linscheid and Reichenbach greatly reduced Wade's self-injurious behavior using a

A) Mild electric shock
B) Strong electric shock
C) Clenched-fist requirement
D) Water mist briefly sprayed in his face

Answer 3

A

Question 4

When the professor hops up from the cracked toilet seat, he is pinched on his rear. So now he is much less likely to hop up so quickly because of what contingency?

A) Positive reinforcement
B) Negative reinforcement
C) Positive punishment
D) Negative punishment

Question 5

In the clenched-fist punishment contingency, to reduce Sid's eye rubbing behavior, what was the condition before the eye rub?

A) no clenched fist
B) clenched fist
C) Dawn's biting her nails
D) thoughtful meditation

Question 6

After a woman trashed the ward of an institution, the behavior analyst required that she make the ward even better and cleaner than before. Relative to the woman's behavior what was the technical name for the procedure or contingency?

A) negative reinforcement
B) overcorrection
C) under correction
D) reinforcement by the removal of an aversive condition

Question 7

If you want to suppress behavior then the use of aversive outcomes is ineffective if the client has been doing that behavior for many years.

Question 8

What's involved in Jimmy and Sue's sick social cycle?

A) Sue hears and/or sees something aversive.
B) Sue doesn't hear and/or see something aversive.
C) Jimmy hears and/or sees something aversive.
D) Jimmy doesn't hear and/or see something aversive.

Question 9

Jimmy stimmed in public because his parents

A) his parents were too slow in disapproving.
B) his parents were too infrequent in disapproving.
C) his parents never disapproved.
D) his parent's disapproval wasn't a punisher.

Question 10

Whenever you have a punishment contingency, there must also be a reinforcement contingency.

Question 11

If the physical stress (intensity) of a punisher increases gradually from response to response, we will continue to make the responses that produce that presumed punisher to very high levels of intensity of that presumed punisher.

Question 12

PoB suggest that there's only one factor you should consider when deciding whether to use positive punishment: will the punishment probably work.

Question 13

PoB suggests that positive punishment is simply aggression by another name.

Question 14

PoB suggests that positive punishment is ineffective because you must continue to use the punishment contingency, in order to keep the punished behavior suppressed, otherwise, it will recover.

Question 15

15. Contingency Table. To answer this question, match the numbers in the boxes to the term that should go in that box.

-Positive Punishment
B) Positive Reinforcement
C) Negative Reinforcement

Question 16

15. Contingency Table. To answer this question, match the numbers in the boxes to the term that should go in that box.

-Positive Punishment
B) Positive Reinforcement
C) Negative Reinforcement

Question 17

15. Contingency Table. To answer this question, match the numbers in the boxes to the term that should go in that box.

-Positive Punishment
B) Positive Reinforcement
C) Negative Reinforcement

Question 18

Match the number to the words that should go in the corresponding box to fill in the contingency diagram for the behavioral intervention using punishment (the ice cube contingency) to reduce bruxism (i.e., tooth grinding) for Velma and Gerri.

-Before

A) Grinds teeth
B) Stops grinding teeth
C) No ice on face
D) Ice on face

Question 19

Match the number to the words that should go in the corresponding box to fill in the contingency diagram for the behavioral intervention using punishment (the ice cube contingency) to reduce bruxism (i.e., tooth grinding) for Velma and Gerri.

-Behavior

A) Grinds teeth
B) Stops grinding teeth
C) No ice on face
D) Ice on face

Question 20

Match the number to the words that should go in the corresponding box to fill in the contingency diagram for the behavioral intervention using punishment (the ice cube contingency) to reduce bruxism (i.e., tooth grinding) for Velma and Gerri.

-After

A) Grinds teeth
B) Stops grinding teeth
C) No ice on face
D) Ice on face

Question 21

Match the number to the words that should go in the corresponding box to fill in the contingency diagram for the behavioral intervention using punishment (squirt of lemon juice) to reduce regurgitation (i.e., throwing up) for Sandra.

-Before

A) Sandra starts vigorous tongue movements
B) Sandra stops throwing up
C) No lemon juice in face
D) Lemon juice in face

Question 22

Match the number to the words that should go in the corresponding box to fill in the contingency diagram for the behavioral intervention using punishment (squirt of lemon juice) to reduce regurgitation (i.e., throwing up) for Sandra.

-Behavior

A) Sandra starts vigorous tongue movements
B) Sandra stops throwing up
C) No lemon juice in face
D) Lemon juice in face

Question 23

Match the number to the words that should go in the corresponding box to fill in the contingency diagram for the behavioral intervention using punishment (squirt of lemon juice) to reduce regurgitation (i.e., throwing up) for Sandra.

-After

A) Sandra starts vigorous tongue movements
B) Sandra stops throwing up
C) No lemon juice in face
D) Lemon juice in face

Question 24

Match the following definitions with the terms below. (Not all of the terms will necessarily be used. In fact, some may be fictitious.)
-The response-contingent presentation of a punisher resulting in a decreased frequency of that response

A)Punisher
B)Overcorrection
C)Under correction
D)Effortful procedure
E)Positive punishment contingency
F)The decremental procedure
G)The perpetrator model
H)The sick social cycle

Question 25

Match the following definitions with the terms below. (Not all of the terms will necessarily be used. In fact, some may be fictitious.)
-A contingency on inappropriate behavior requiring the person to engage in an effortful response that more than corrects the effects of the inappropriate behavior.

A)Punisher
B)Overcorrection
C)Under correction
D)Effortful procedure
E)Positive punishment contingency
F)The decremental procedure
G)The perpetrator model
H)The sick social cycle

Question 26

Match the following definitions with the terms below. (Not all of the terms will necessarily be used. In fact, some may be fictitious.)
-A stimulus that decreases the future frequency of a response that its presentation follows

A)Punisher
B)Overcorrection
C)Under correction
D)Effortful procedure
E)Positive punishment contingency
F)The decremental procedure
G)The perpetrator model
H)The sick social cycle

Question 27

Match the following definitions with the terms below. (Not all of the terms will necessarily be used. In fact, some may be fictitious.)
-The perpetrator's aversive behavior punishes the victim's appropriate behavior and the victim's stopping the appropriate behavior unintentionally reinforces that aversive behavior.

A)Punisher
B)Overcorrection
C)Under correction
D)Effortful procedure
E)Positive punishment contingency
F)The decremental procedure
G)The perpetrator model
H)The sick social cycle

Question 28

Fill in the Blank

-Punisher (aversive stimulus).
$\bullet$ A stimulus
$\bullet$ that decreases the future frequency of a response that
$\bullet$ it's _____________________ follows

Question 29

Fill in the Blank

-Overcorrection
$\bullet$ A ______________________
$\bullet$ on ______________________ behavior
$\bullet$ requiring a person
$\bullet$ to engage in an __________________ response
$\bullet$ that more than ____________________
$\bullet$ the effects of the _____________________ behavior

Question 30

Fill in the Blank

-The sick social cycle (victim's punishment model)
$\bullet$ The perpetrator's aversive behavior ________________
$\bullet$ the victim's ______________ behavior
$\bullet$ and the victim's stopping the _______________ behavior
$\bullet$ unintentionally __________________ that aversive behavior.

Question 31

Fill in the Blank

-Positive punishment contingency
$\bullet$ The response-contingent
$\bullet$ _______________________ of
$\bullet$ an ____________________ condition
$\bullet$ resulting in a ___________________ frequency of that response.

Question 32

Define the following concepts:
-Punisher (aversive stimulus)

Question 33

Define the following concepts:
-Positive punishment contingency (punishment)

Question 34

Define the following concepts:
-Overcorrection

Question 35

Define the following concepts:
-The sick social cycle (victim's punishment model)

Question 36

Give a brief example of each of the following
-Punisher (aversive stimulus)

Question 37

Give a brief example of each of the following
-Positive punishment contingency (punishment)

Question 38

Give a brief example of each of the following
-Overcorrection

Question 39

Give a brief example of each of the following
-The sick social cycle (victim's punishment model)

Question 40

Describe the use of a punishment contingency to get rid of regurgitation.
$\bullet$ What was the intervention,
$\bullet$ and what were the results?

Question 41

Describe the use of a positive punishment contingency to prevent self-injurious behavior.
$\bullet$ What was the intervention,
$\bullet$ and what were the results?

Question 42

Use an example or two to compare and contrast the following (also construct and use a contingency table in the comparing and contrasting):
$\bullet$ Negative reinforcement
$\bullet$ Positive punishment

Question 43

Explain how a child might gradually acquire serious self-injurious behavior reinforced by attention.

Question 44

Please give an example where parental disapproval works and one where it doesn't work as positive punishment.

Question 45

Using the skinner box, compare and contrast positive punishment and negative reinforcement.

Question 46

Discuss the notion that, whenever you have a punishment contingency, there must also be a reinforcement contingency.

Question 47

Compare and contrast Wade's intense head banging with Azrin's Skinner box experiment.

Question 48

Discuss a case study where positive punishment with electric shock eliminated serious self-injury.

Question 49

What are two factors to consider in doing a cost-benefit analysis of using punishment?

Question 50

What are six considerations you should include in guidelines for punishment?

Question 51

Please compare and contrast aggression and the careful use of positive punishment.

Question 52

Please discuss the myth of the ineffectiveness of punishment.

Question 53

Diagram an everyday example of a positive punishment contingency.

Question 54

Diagram the positive punishment contingency for getting rid of a habitual behavior.

Question 55

Diagram the use of a positive punishment contingency to reduce aggression.

Question 56

Diagram an example of the victim's-punishment model of the sick social cycle.