Which one of the following alternatives best describes positive behavioral support?
a. Teaching students to monitor their own classroom behavior using a checklist taped to the tops of their desks
b. Meeting regularly with a student in one-on-one discussions of chronic behavior problems, with the goal of bringing about more productive behavior
c. Creating conditions that enable students to meet their needs through appropriate rather than inappropriate behaviors
d. Using only reinforcementnever punishmentto improve students' classroom behavior
Question 2
Diane frequently complains of terrible headaches and so ends up at the nurse's office several times a week. Yet two different physicians have been unable to find a cause for Diane's headaches,
and Diane's parents report that their daughter rarely has headaches at home. Diane is falling further and further behind in her schoolwork, so her teacher and parents meet with the nurse and school psychologist to brainstorm possible solutions to her problem. The school psychologist suggests that the teacher keep track of the occasions when Diane complains about a headache. Two weeks later, the teacher reports that all of Diane's complaints occur just before a test or difficult assignment. Suddenly the teacher and parents begin to suspect that perhaps Diane complains of headaches as a way of getting out of difficult schoolwork. This situation illustrates an approach known as:
a. The use of incompatible behaviors
b. Logical consequences
c. Cognitive behavioral analysis
d. Functional analysis
Teaching an illterate patient
Nonverbal communications convey strong, powerful messages that may be negative or positive.
The “inside positive” rule
Introduction to Behavioral Research Methods, 6/E
Positive and Negative Reinforcement
Positive and Negative Punishment