PS563 Unit 4 Discussion
Designing a Schedule of Reinforcement
For this discussion, begin by viewing the learning activity, which provides information on how to write a set of technological procedures for an intervention. After reviewing this activity, you will practice how to design and technologically outline a simple intervention using a basic schedule of reinforcement.
Refer to the client that you selected in your Unit 3 discussion. You’ve already considered how prompting would play a role in this client’s skill development. Now you will plan a simple intervention that uses reinforcement as part of this process. Provide the following for this week’s discussion:
- Reintroduce a “client” from one of your past discussions.
- Select a simple, evidence-based intervention to support the development of a desired behavior (this can be an antecedent or consequence intervention).
- Describe your intervention procedures technologically (i.e., in enough detail so that someone could implement your intervention), including how you will integrate your schedule of reinforcement. Provide a brief rationale to explain why you feel the type of schedule is most appropriate and how you determined the rate of reinforcement.
- Discuss how the matching law might play a role in how you design your intervention and reinforcement.
Review two of your classmates’ responses, using the following ideas as a guide:
- How well did they support the intervention selection with the evidence base?
- Provide feedback on the technological outline of the intervention. Would you be able to follow it with integrity? Why or why not?
- Provide feedback on the selected schedule of reinforcement and the rationale. Is it clear?
- Ask at least one thoughtful follow-up question.