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Bhimanapalli 1 Name: Hima Bhimanapalli Punishment: Positive Punishment Date: 3/24/2024 Professor Southwick Foundations of Learning and Behavior Analysis Questions Week 8 Punishment: Positive Punishment Directions: Answer each question in complete sentences, typed. Page numbers are provided. 1. Describe the use of a punishment contingency to get rid of regurgitation. (127) a. What was the intervention? For Sandra, the intervention was receiving a squirt of unsweetened (or sour) lemon juice as soon as she started the vigorous tongue movements. b. What were the results? Sandra ended up decreasing her regurgitation by half during the first 20-minute punishment session following her feeding. By the 12 th day, she even stopped throwing up her milk. In 2 months, Sandra’s weight increased from 8 to 12 pound, and in a year she weighed 24 pounds. 2. Describe the use of a positive punishment contingency to prevent self-injurious behavior. (128-129) a. What was the intervention? Wade’s intervention was administering a brief and mild shock to his leg for each head bang he committed. b. What were the results? The results ended up being that in the first 5-minute session he only hit himself about four times per minute (he received the mild shock each time he did hit himself). In the next 5 minutes, he did not hit himself at all. His afternoon self-injury fell to zero. And, when we wore the SIBIS device to school, his hitting remained at zero. Researchers also saw an increase in his smiling, laughing, and approaching other people.
Bhimanapalli 2 3. Compare and contrast the following: (130) Positive Punishment Negative Punishment Positive Punishment Both decrease behavior. Negative reinforcement Both use an aversive stimulus. 4. Diagram the positive punishment contingency for getting rid of a habitual behavior. (131) 5. Describe the use of a positive punishment contingency to reduce aggression. (132) a. What was the intervention? For ten-year-old Peter, the intervention was each time he assaulted someone, the teacher required him to stand and sit on the floor 10 times. b. What were the results? The results showed to be very successful. After 10 days if the punishment procedure, the attacks dropped to an average of 2.3 per day. 6. Overcorrection (133) a. Define it: A contingency on inappropriate behavior requiring the person to engage in an effortful response that more than corrects the effects of the inappropriate behavior. b. Give an example: An example from the book is with Ann, a violent 50-year-old women who trashed her ward about 13 times a day and overturns everything that is not nailed down. So, to do overcorrection she had to set the furniture right and then remake all the beds in the ward neatly and apologize to the people whose furniture she overturned. She had to do effortful over-correction. By doing this, after 11 weeks, Ann stopped completely being violent. Wade Azrin’s pigeon The child in the example foes not have to clench his fist. The child rubs his eye. The child has to clench his fist.
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