Automatic reinforcement extinction
A process where the maintaining automatic reinforcer no longer follows a specific behavior, resulting in that behavior decreasing and eventually ceasing.
B.11 Identify and distinguish between operant and respondent extinction as operations and processes.
Dana Do’s: How to Discriminate Between Response Blocking and Extinction
What are the key differences between these these two procedures? PTB co-founder Dana Meller distills the concepts with common and relatable examples we can identify with.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Sections B-9: Define and provide examples of operant extinction; and B-6: Define and provide examples of positive and negative punishment contingencies.
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Dana Do’s: Three Types of Extinction Procedures
There are three types of extinction procedures. PTB Founder Dana Meller breaks down how Learn how extinction is classified based on what’s being withheld—and why recognizing the maintaining consequence is key to answering extinction questions correctly on the BCBA®/BCaBA® exam.
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Negative reinforcement extinction
A process where the maintaining negative reinforcer no longer follows a specific behavior, resulting in that behavior decreasing and eventually ceasing.
Operant extinction
A process where a maintaining reinforcer is no longer provided, and the behavior that has been maintained by that reinforcer decreases and eventually ceases.
Positive reinforcement extinction
A process where the maintaining positive reinforcer no longer follows a specific behavior, resulting in that behavior decreasing and eventually ceasing.
Respondent extinction
When a previously neutral stimulus that was paired with an unconditioned stimulus to become a conditioned stimulus that elicits a conditioned response is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus, and