GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
REINFORCEMENT AND PUNISHMENT
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Only use natural reinforcers
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Only use tangible reinforcers
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Gradually thin out the schedule of reinforcement
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Always use low ratio schedule of reinforcement
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thinning of reinforcement involves a graduallincrease in the amount of appropriate responses required for reinforcement. Reinforcement should move from a thick reinforcement schedule (continuous) to a thinner reinforcement schedule (variable), and should be completed in a systematic manner to avoid ratio strain.
Detailed explanation-2: -Broadly speaking, reinforcement schedule thinning following FCT involves altering the reinforcement schedule, usually in a systematic and progressive manner across multiple sessions, until some terminal schedule, judged to be practical for care providers to implement, is reached.
Detailed explanation-3: -Among the reinforcement schedules, variable ratio is the most productive and the most resistant to extinction. Fixed interval is the least productive and the easiest to extinguish (Figure 1).
Detailed explanation-4: -Variable ratio schedules maintain high and steady rates of the desired behavior, and the behavior is very resistant to extinction. Interval schedules involve reinforcing a behavior after an interval of time has passed.