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#1. A teacher observes that a student, Jackie, who previously engaged in frequent attention-seeking behaviors, has significantly improved her on-task behavior and is now consistently following classroom rules. As a result, the teacher begins to allocate more attention to other students who require assistance and, unintentionally, less to Jackie. Over time, Jackie’s newly acquired appropriate behaviors start to decrease in frequency. Based on this scenario, which of the following ABA principles is most likely occurring with Jackie’s appropriate behavior?
This scenario most accurately describes unintentional extinction Extinction occurs when reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior is withheld leading to a decrease in the future frequency of that behavior In this case Jackies appropriate behaviors were likely maintained by teacher attention When the teacher unintentionally started paying less attention to Jackie after her behavior improved she was withdrawing reinforcement for the appropriate behavior thus putting it on extinction This often happens inadvertently when a learners behavior improves and the focus shifts but its crucial to continue reinforcing desired behaviors to maintain them Planned ignoring is a specific extinction procedure that is intentionally implemented to decrease a problem behavior by withholding attention or other identified reinforcers The key here is that its planned and typically targets undesired behaviors In this scenario the ignoring is unintentional and is affecting desired behaviors Punishment involves adding an aversive stimulus or removing a desirable one to decrease a behavior There is no indication of an aversive stimulus being added or a desirable stimulus being removed contingently to decrease Jackies behavior rather reinforcement attention is simply being withheld which is characteristic of extinction Continuous reinforcement would mean the teacher is providing reinforcement attention for every instance of Jackies appropriate behavior which is explicitly stated not to be occurring
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