Differential negative reinforcement of other behavior to increase wearing of a medical bracelet

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 901-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Cook ◽  
John T. Rapp ◽  
Kimberley A. Schulze
Keyword(s):  
Negative Reinforcement ◽  
Differential Negative Reinforcement

scholarly journals Enhancing Self-Monitoring with Differential Negative Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior for Increasing Students’ Writing Production

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-102
Author(s):  
Meghann M. Torchia ◽  
John W. Maag
Keyword(s):  
Negative Reinforcement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Probe Design ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Alternative Behavior ◽  
Differential Effectiveness ◽  
Multiple Probe ◽  
Differential Negative Reinforcement ◽  
Minute Session

Many students find writing aversive and behave in ways to escape the task. Self-monitoring and differential negative reinforcement of alternative behavior (DNRA) are two approaches that have been shown to improve the quantity of writing performance but have never been combined to determine whether they are more effective in combination than in isolation. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the differential effectiveness of self-monitoring versus self-monitoring plus DNRA for increasing the number of words and sentences written using a multiple probe design across three participants during two 10-minute sessions. For each baseline session, participants were given a story starter prompt to write as much as they could, received a short break, and then the second 10-minute session would begin. Self-monitoring indicated an increase in a number of words written and an unstable but slightly higher trend in a number of sentences written for one participant. The other two participants showed decreasing trends in both the number of words and sentences written during self-monitoring. Results of self-monitoring plus DNRA indicated an increase in a number of words and sentences written for one participant, while the other two participants showed little to no improvement. Areas for future research, limitations, and implications for practice are discussed.

Negative reinforcement of binge eating and vomiting in bulimics

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Smyth ◽  
S. A. Wonderlich ◽  
K. E. Heron ◽  
M. J. Sliwinski ◽  
R. D. Crosby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Binge Eating ◽  
Negative Reinforcement

Positive and Negative Reinforcement of Alcohol Use Scales

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Bin Cho ◽  
Jinni Su ◽  
Sally I-Chun Kuo ◽  
Kathleen K. Bucholz ◽  
Grace Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Negative Reinforcement

Neuropsychological impairment in patients with major depressive disorder: the effects of feedback on task performance

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. C. MURPHY ◽  
A. MICHAEL ◽  
T. W. ROBBINS ◽  
B. J. SAHAKIAN
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Negative Feedback ◽  
Performance Feedback ◽  
Visual Discrimination ◽  
Negative Reinforcement ◽  
Spatial Working Memory ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Reversal Task ◽  
Depressed Patients

Background. Recent evidence suggests that an abnormal response to performance feedback may contribute to the wide-ranging neuropsychological deficits typically associated with depressive illness. The present research sought to determine whether the inability of depressed patients to utilize performance feedback advantageously is equally true for accurate and misleading feedback.Method. Patients with major depression and matched controls completed: (1) a visual discrimination and reversal task that featured intermittent and misleading negative feedback; and (2) feedback and no-feedback versions of a computerised test of spatial working memory. In the feedback version, negative feedback was accurate, highly informative, and could be used as a mnemonic aid.Results. On the Probability Reversal task, depressed patients were impaired in their ability to maintain response set in the face of misleading negative feedback as shown by their increased tendency to switch responding to the ‘incorrect’ stimulus following negative reinforcement, relative to that of controls. Patients' ability to acquire and reverse the necessary visual discrimination was unimpaired. On the Spatial Working Memory task, depressed patients made significantly more between-search errors than controls on the most difficult trials, but their ability to use negative feedback to facilitate performance remained intact.Conclusions. The present results suggest that feedback can have different effects in different contexts. Misleading, negative feedback appears to disrupt the performance of depressed patients, whereas negative but accurate feedback does not. These findings are considered in the context of recent studies on reinforcement systems and their associated neurobiological substrates.

Contiguous Approach Conditioning: A Model for Negative Reinforcement

1975 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 851-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest G. Maples ◽  
Phillip D. Tomporowski ◽  
Maury M. Haraway
Keyword(s):  
Test Trial ◽  
Negative Reinforcement ◽  
Shock Termination ◽  
Single Test ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Equivalent Number ◽  
The Difference

The study was designed to provide an empirical basis for Denny's account of negative reinforcement by showing that stimuli contiguously paired with shock termination can become conditioned elicitors of approach. 20 experimental Ss received 15 trials in which the onset of a 6-w light was paired with the termination of a 30-sec., 1-ma. scrambled shock, independently of Ss' behavior. 20 control Ss received an equivalent number of light and shock presentations, but these were unpaired. On a single test trial, S was exposed to a 6 w light in one arm (randomly selected) of a modified T-maze. 17 of 20 experimental Ss approached the light whereas only 11 of 20 control Ss approached the light. The difference between proportions was significant ( p = .05).

Negative Reinforcement–Based Treatment to Increase Food Intake

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 600-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward B. Kitfield ◽  
Christopher J. Masalsky
Keyword(s):  
Food Intake ◽  
Negative Reinforcement ◽  
Increase Food Intake
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