Behavior Management

Behavior Management

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Behavior Management

Question One

Assignments completed – frequency

Following direction – frequency

Time on-task – duration

Hand raising without talk – frequency

Time leaving and returning to classroom – interval

Question Two

Replacement behavior would be to help Rich set a goal to wake up early using an alarm and rewarding him when he comes early. The operation definition would be goal setting.

Question Three

In single subject research designs, ABA stands for A one baseline, B for the treatment and the last A for a baseline.

Question Four

The reinforcement intervention is not effective in changing Sarah’s attendance behavior. One, from the graph it is clear that the girl’s behavior is fluctuating depending on the event at hand. When she comes early, it is not because she is interested in complying with the rules. Rather, it is by chance or because she wanted to gain something valuable. From the graph, it is evident that after the 4 points, her behavior changed after receiving a gift for her attendance. Therefore, the child took advantage of the opportunity rather than learning from it.

Question Five

Continuous reinforcement schedule where the reinforcement occurs immediately after the expected response occurs. It can occur when a teacher gives a student a star for raising their hand before answering a question. Intermittent reinforcement schedule is characterized by a biased allocation of reinforcement for specific responses but not for all of them. In the classroom, this happens when the teacher expects a specific answer but receives many answers from different pupils. The student with the correct answer will receive the intended reinforcement. The ratio reinforcement schedule is characterized by a fixed and variable ratio. The fixed ration schedule involves awarding reinforcement using an average number of right answers while the variable schedule involves awarding reinforcement based on each student’s contribution or effort. In other words, if the threshold is three, the teacher will choose a student if he raises their arm thrice. Another category, interval reinforcement schedules work by allocating reinforcement to students after a specific amount of time. They are also subdivided into fixed and variable interval schedules that differ in terms of the frequency of awarding