Advanced Topics in Reinforcement: Schedule Yoking and Shaping Misty sat down for supervision with Andy. She asked the technician to run the independent work program as it was written so she could observe. She noticed that his “daydreaming,” as the classroom teacher called it, occurred after he completed half of the worksheet. He started to look around the room and told his technician that he was bored and wanted to get up and stretch. Misty remembered her conversation with Brock and had a great idea: a token board. She remembered an article she read in graduate school about using a variable ratio schedule to increase on-task behavior. She decided to use a token board with a VR2 token delivery schedule. After 10 tokens, Andy could get up and move around for two minutes and then return to his work. Once the entire worksheet was done, he could get his favorite activity: Playing Minecraft for ten minutes. A few days later she received a notification from her technician saying that Andy had not only completed his worksheet without delay, but the teacher commented on how his concentration had significantly improved. Write Your Discussion Post *For this discussion, think about the readings you completed regarding conditioned reinforcement and shaping and share your thoughts. Here are some ideas to get you started in this discussion. Choose one of the following bullets to respond to. *Define conditioned reinforcement and describe a real-world situation where you have encountered or used conditioned reinforcement to change a behavior. *Find (or create!) a short video that demonstrates someone shaping another organism’s behavior. Explain what was being shaped and how differential reinforcement was used. *Setting goals and self-monitoring behavior is an important aspect of ABA. For this post, you are going to start your own self-monitoring procedure. Define a behavior that you want to change and describe the shaping procedure you would use to alter it.*Discuss something that stood out to you this week. Was there a topic in one of the readings that was especially interesting and caught your attention? Describe how this information could be useful to you in the future. What You Need to KnowAdvanced Topics in Reinforcement: Schedule Yoking and ShapingMisty started using a token economy system with one of her consumers which had a significant impact on his behavior. This in combination with shaping can make significant impacts on behavior. This week’s readings will focus on the application of shaping and complex schedules of reinforcement in translational research. Powell, R. A., Honey, P. L., & Symbaluk, D. G. (2017). Introduction to learning and behavior (5th ed.). Cengage.Chapter 6, “Operant Conditioning: Introduction,” pages 209–253. Holtyn, A. F., & Lattal, K. A. (2013). Briefly delayed reinforcement effects on variable-ratio and yoked-interval schedule performance. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 100(2), 198–210. Fernandez, E. J. (2020). Training petting zoo sheep to act like petting zoo sheep: An empirical evaluation of response-independent schedules and shaping with negative reinforcement. Animals, 10(7), 1122. Davison, M., & Baum, W. M. (2010). Stimulus effects on local preference: Stimulus—response contingencies, stimulus—food pairing, and stimulus—food correlation. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 93(1), 45–59.
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