PSYB45H3 Chapter 17: B45 - Chapter 17
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When children do something wrong and they are told to sit-out until they are ready to play (example of time out) Time-out: loss of access to positive reinforcers for a brief period contingent on the problem behavior: result is a decrease in the future probability of the problem behavior. Time-out from positive reinforcement: a type of negative punishment in which, contingent on the occurrence of the problem behavior, the person loses access to positive reinforcers for a brief period. Typically, the person is removed from the reinforcing environment in a time-out procedure. Two types: non-exclusionary time-out, exclusionary time-out. Exclusionary time-out: a time-out procedure in which the person is briefly removed from the reinforcing environment-typically to another room-contingent on the occurrence of a problem behavior. When time-out is used (or any punishment procedure), a differential reinforcement procedure should also be used. Number of considerations to use time-out effectively.
