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Question #: 42
Topic #: 1
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A child is exhibiting tantrum behaviors. You believe the tantrum is occurring for your attention. You therefore ignore the tantrum until it ceases while continuing daily activities. You note that the tantrums decrease over time. This is an example of:

  • A. Positive punishment
  • B. Establishing operations
  • C. Time-out
  • D. Extinction
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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️
by M_Sam at Jan. 4, 2020, 12:07 a.m.

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M_Sam
Highly Voted 3 years, 11 months ago
This is an example of extinction. Positive punishment requires that something aversive be added to the environment. When in this example, something reinforcing is removed from the environment.
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Sandramb
Most Recent 2 months, 1 week ago
This is an example of extinction, if it were a type of punishment it would be negative punishment (no-exclusionary - planning ignoring)
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Dakota_V
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: D
This should definitely be extinction. If the (hypothesized) function of the bx is attention, and you are withholding that attention, you are putting that bx on extinction. Positive punishment, while it does decrease bx, a stimulus would have to be ADDED.
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Law1
1 year, 6 months ago
This scenario describes Extinction. Removing reinforcements from a previously reinforced behavior
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Mechenique
2 years, 4 months ago
In extinction, the behavior decreases when the reinforcer is not provided. Attention= Reinforcer maintaining tantrums. Attention was not provided therefore tantrums decreased.
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jenniferjbr
2 years, 6 months ago
definitely extinction
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karra
2 years, 8 months ago
This is Positive punishment, since the stimulus(ignoring which is aversive) is added in the environment, and notice that the behavior is decreasing daily. In Extinction there will be an rapid increase in behavior initially(tantrum) before it decreases.
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kingini1
1 year, 6 months ago
ignoring is removal of attention, so its negative punishment. In cooper planned ignoring is comes under negative punishments procedure as a subcategory of time out. However when using this tactic the extinction is occurred due to unpairing of attention and instructions by the teacher to only instructions.
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jenniferjbr
2 years, 6 months ago
do not confuse people
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LuzMery
2 years, 11 months ago
Yes, it is extinction.
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