CHYS 3P60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Beach Ball, Functional Analysis, Ice Pop

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 3P60
• Professor: Tricia Vause

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Situation: person sitting in class, professor asks a question. Response: student raises hand and answers question. Immediate consequence: professor ignores student, and calls on another. Long term effect: in the future, the student is less likely upon hearing a question asked, to raise their hand and utter a response (occur several times) Situation: zach is sitting in a classroom with several other students. Response: zach raises his hand and snaps his fingers. Consequence: teacher ignores the child and responds to child who has their hand raised and not snapping fingers. Long term effects: in the future, student is less likely to snap his fingers. Behaviour may get worse before it gets better. A child with autism: an undesirable instance of extinction. Situation: tanner and his tutor are playing with a beach ball. Consequence: tutor ignores the eye contact, and then gives tanner an instruction to roll the ball.