The title of this chapter is Decreasing Behavior with ...

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The title of this chapter is Decreasing Behavior with Differential Reinforcement. This title seems a little odd because, by definition, reinforcement increases the future probability of a behavior. Explain how a behavior is decreased through differential reinforcement. Be sure you are clear about the principles of behavior at work in your explanation.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Before you use a chaining procedure, it is recommended that you task analyze the skill to be taught. What does it mean to task analyze a skill?
 
  a. Make a sequential list of all the smaller substeps of the task to be trained.
  b. Plan your prompting strategy carefully.
  c. Conduct a reinforcer assessment prior to beginning training.
  d. Analyze the response class and reinforce successive approximations to the terminal behavior.

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Answer to Question 1

All differential reinforcement procedures use extinction for undesirable behavior. Thus, one mechanism that decreases the undesirable response is extinction. However, differential reinforcement also uses reinforcement for either incompatible, alternate, other, or low rates of behavior. If a behavior incompatible with the undesirable behavior is increased, the undesirable behavior must decrease. When alternate or other behaviors are increased, this typically results in a decrease in undesirable behavior.

Answer to Question 2

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