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Benefits & Difficulties

Benefits:

  • Low cost
  • Highly effective
  • Replacing the problem behavior

Difficulties:

  • Identifying behavior to reinforce
  • Need to constantly reinforce behavior
  • Phasing out of reinforcement

In Practice

Research

Lunchroom Praise Note System:

  • To decrease problem behaviors in the lunchroom
  • Inappropriate sitting, running, trash
  • Combined with other practices
  • Effective in decreasing behaviors
  • Trash: 96%
  • Inappropriate sitting: 65%
  • Running: 75%
  • Works well with other behavior management practices
  • clear expectations
  • consistent praise
  • token system
  • response cost

What it is

Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior

  • Reinforcement - increase behavior
  • Decrease a problem behavior by reinforcing an opposite, positive behavior
  • Example behavior: out of seat - want to increase "in seat behavior"

Environments

Example

Problem behavior: bolting to the door

Reinforced behavior: laying down

  • Classroom - all
  • School-wide:
  • lunchroom
  • hallways

Information/Resources

  • Good Overview - has all types of differential reinforcement
  • http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/bi2/cresource/q4/p08/#content
  • Research - see handout

Research articles - good examples of how to use the strategy in a classroom

  • Lunchroom Praise Note System - see handout
  • Inattentive Behavior of Jordanian Children

Research

Decreasing Inattentive Behavior in Jordanian Children:

  • Children with ADHD
  • Used DRI and response cost to decrease inattention
  • Reinforce attentive behavior
  • Lose sticker for problem behaviors
  • Easy to implement after training
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