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#1. A 9-year-old client with no prior history of physical aggression begins to frequently elope from the classroom. To reduce elopement, the teacher implements a response cost procedure, removing a preferred token for each instance of elopement. After a few days, the client’s elopement behavior significantly decreases. However, the teacher reports that the client has now started hitting peers during transition times, a behavior never observed before. What might best explain the emergence of this new hitting behavior?
This question describes a common and concerning side effect of punishment procedures Punishmentinduced aggression refers to the phenomenon where an individual may engage in aggressive behaviors such as hitting as a direct reaction to the implementation of an aversive intervention or punishment procedure Response cost is a form of punishment as it involves the removal of a reinforcer tokens contingent on a behavior leading to a decrease in that behavior The frustration anger or aversiveness associated with the response cost can evoke an emotional response that manifests as aggression An extinction burst A occurs when a behavior initially increases in frequency intensity or duration when reinforcement for that behavior is withheld which is not what happened here elopement decreased and a new behavior emerged Behavioral contrast B occurs when a change in the rate of reinforcement or punishment in one setting leads to an inverse change in the rate of behavior in another setting which is not directly described Negative reinforcement D involves the removal of an aversive stimulus to increase a behavior which is not the context of the hitting behavior here
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