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chapter 16- This week's readings cover differential reinforcement of other behaviors, which sounds similar to a topic covered earlier in the course (differential reinforcement of alternative behavior). Explain the similarities between the two, and provide an example of their application to make the differences between them clear.
Differential reinforcement procedure: This procedure includes application of reinforcement and extinction to increase the occurrence of a desirable target behavior. It is of three types:
Differential Reinforcement
of Alternative Behavior (DRA): It is a procedure which is
used to increase the frequency of desirable behavior by
implementing reinforcement and to decrease the frequency of
undesirable behaviors through extinction.
Differential reinforcement of other behavior
(DRO): In DRO, the reinforcer is contingent on the absence
of the problem behavior. This means that the reinforcer is no
longer delivered after the problem behavior but the reinforcer is
delivered.
Differential reinforcement of low rates of responding (DRL): In DRL, the reinforcer is delivered when the rate of the problem behavior is decreased to a criterion level.