Which schedule of reinforcement is most effective at maintaining behaviors?
Placing a request that a child is least likely to perform at the end of a series of requests that the child is most likely to perform is a phenomenon known as:
An experimenter examines the effects of three types of prompts on compliance in a developmentally disabled person. In this experiment, what is the independent variable?
John's instructional program has successfully increased the number of words he reads correctly per minute.
The procedures used include special worksheets, contingent reinforcement for number of words read correctly, and peer tutoring. The behavior analyst wants to determine which part or parts of the treatment have been effective, so he systematically dismantles the treatment and withdraws elements until the reading no longer improves. The behavior analyst is completing a:
To address hitting others, two procedures were compared, differential reinforcement of incompatible
behavior and time-out. The outcomes were examined within and across subjects. A withdrawal design was
employed. The BEST response measure to use in this study is frequency of:
