PSYB45H3 Chapter 12: Differential Reinforcement Procedures
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Chapter 12 differential reinforcement procedures to decrease behaviour. Differential reinforcement schedules/procedures: schedules to reinforce rates of responding people may wan to try to reduce the rate of responding within a given stimulus. E. g. a student can only rip 3 eyebrows in 15 minutes. Good for tolerable behaviours, but trying to decrease that behaviour (because too excessive: spaced-responding drl: within a time interval, learner cannot behave a response. After that time interval, then the learner must do that response to get a reinforcer. Good for behaviour that is desirable but at an excessive rate. E. g. student constantly raises his hand and blurts the answer out. Spaced-responding drl 1 response/15-mins schedule can only provide response per 15 mins. Dro: a schedule of reinforcement in which the reinforcer is presented only if a specific response does not occur at all during a time interval. Used for intolerable or dangerous or self-harming behaviours that should not be occurring.
