Differential Reinforcement Procedures
Define each of the differential reinforcement procedures, noting how the two components of each procedure affects the occurrence of problem and desired behaviors. Then, choose a personal behavior, or the behavior of someone in your environment (maintaining confidentiality, of course!). Choose a Differential Reinforcement procedure and explain how you would apply that procedure to decrease the problem behavior and increase a desired behavior, taking into consideration the thoughts on schedules of reinforcement or matching law covered last week.
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Reinforcement Procedures
There exist two primary types of differential reinforcement procedures. These include Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI) and Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA). DRI involves ensuring that a behavior incompatible with the problem is reinforced. In this aspect, the reinforcement for the problem behavior is withheld. The effect on behavior is that reinforcing the incompatible behavior makes it difficult for one to engage in problem behavior (Trump et al., 2020). It thus reduces the occurrence of problem behavior in the individual. The second one is that DRA involves reinforcing behaviors that appear as an alternative to problem behavior. The impact is that an individual becomes comfortable