Pairing

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Positive Reinforcement and Pairing Quiz

Test your knowledge on the concepts of pairing and positive reinforcement with this engaging quiz designed for educators, therapists, and anyone interested in behavior analysis. Dive into essential definitions, scenarios, and strategies to enhance your understanding and application of reinforcement techniques.

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Define Pairing

The act of associating yourself with reinforcement to become “the giver of goods”

Connecting edible reinforcers and yourself

Giving the client whatever they want

Pairing environment and yourself

Define positive reinforcement

Giving a preferred item to someone

Is the addition of a stimulus following the occurrence of a behavior to increase the probability of the behavior occurring in the future

Being the giver of good things

Is the removal of a stimulus following the occurrence of a behavior, to increase the probability of the behavior being repeated in the future

Antecedent

Behaviour

Consequence

Your child sees bubbles

Child points for and say “bubbles”

You cheer

What is the reinforcement?

You cheering is positive reinforcement

Child pointing in positive reinforcement

Nothing in this scenario is positive reinforcement

How do you pair yourself to fun activities?

Be very playful and fun

Manipulate the environment so that you are the “giver of good things”

Don’t place too much demand on them to do anything for the first few times of meeting

All the above

Check all the correct answers. You can easily manipulate the environment to control preferred items by:

When should you deliver reinforcement?

Immediately after a problem behaviour occurs

After you get the child to do what you want

A few minutes after a desired behaviour occurs

Immediately after desired behaviour

Check all the correct answers. Scenario: A child you have been working with for months, now seems distance and keeps trying to escape the classroom. What should you consider?

Work on re-pairing yourself

Let them leave the room maybe they want to go to the other classroom

Find some new toys/activities and bring into the classroom

They want to go home, call their parent

Check all the correct answers. Scenario: A client is having a hard time transitioning back to classroom. They are flopped on the floor crying. You bring out cookies and bubbles and ipad and offer them to the client. This the not the best strategy. Why?

You should be reinforcing the behaviour you want to see more of

You are reinforcing the difficult transition if you give them preferred items

You should just give them everything to get them back to classroom

Dont just bring out reinforcers during challenging moments

Instead remind them of what they can get when the engage in appropriate transition behaviour

You want Billy put his coat away so you say, "coat in cubby" and point to cubby. Billy puts his coat away. You give him a sticker. The next day you notice Billy immediately puts his coat away when entering the class. You give him 2 stickers. Is this a bribe or a reinforcement strategy?

Reinforcement

Bribery

Pairing

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