Behavior AcquisitionDifficulty 3/5
A learner reliably greets the RBT with 'hi' in the clinic but not at school or with other staff. Which procedure directly targets this problem?
- AAdd a punishment procedure for not greeting
- BRun additional massed trials of the greeting in the clinic until accuracy reaches 100%
- CIncrease the magnitude of reinforcement for greetings delivered in the clinic setting
- DPractice greetings across people, settings and times
Show answer and rationale
Correct: D. This is a generalization deficit. Generalization procedures deliberately train across settings, people and stimuli so the skill occurs beyond the teaching context.
- C — Stronger reinforcement in one setting does not make the skill transfer.
- A — Punishment does not teach where and when to respond.
- B — More trials in the same context reinforce the same narrow stimulus control.