The effectiveness of a token as a reinforcer depends largely on the variety of backup reinforcers for which they can be exchanged.

Differential reinforcement involves reinforcing one response class and reinforcement for another.

If using DRI to decrease Tyler’s hitting other children in the hallway, which behavior would be reinforced as Tyler walks down the hall?

In the “Coupons for Cursing” strategy described in Box 28.1 of the chapter, what behavioral principle is primarily being utilized?

You would like to implement an interval DRO procedure with a student with autism to decrease hand flapping so that you can get the student to attend to work more consistently. You conduct baseline observations and find that the student stops hand flapping for about 2 minutes on average. What would an appropriate initial DRO interval be?

The immediate increase in the magnitude of behavior following an attempt to reduce it, such as Queen Victoria’s more intense demands, is known as an .

An example of DRA in the chapter involves treating the inappropriate verbal behavior of an individual named .

Noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) delivers stimuli with known reinforcing properties on which type of schedule?

Which of the following exemplifies point-to-point correspondence?

Contingency dependent antecedent interventions rely on differential consequences for the target or alternative behavior.