Discrimination Training Procedures

Question 1

Define Discrimination Training Procedures

Answer 1

Reinforcing or punishing a response in the presence of one stimulus (Sd) and extinguishing it or allowing it to recover in the presence of another stimulus (Sdelta)

i. e.
- Reinforce client behavior of saying “apple” in the presence of an 🍎 (Sd) while extinguishing that utterance in the presence of a 🍌 (Sdelta).

• Reinforce client behavior of touching picture of a 🐻 in the presence of 1) “find bear”, 2) a picture of 🐻 and 3) pictures that are not 🐻(all 3 are part of the Sd) while extinguishing touching 🐻 in the absence of the instruction and other pictures.
• Punish client’s behavior of scripting movies in the presence of mom (Sd) while allowing scripting to recover (occur) in the absence of mom(Sdelta)