Question

A therapist is working with a child that dislikes the task she is working on. The child pinches the therapist. The therapist responds by telling the child to take a break from the work and think about what she did. In the future, the child pinches any time she doesn’t want to do her work. In this example, the consequence for pinching was ________.

Answer 1

Receiving a break from work which functioned as a reinforce

Explanation:

Reinforce is something like to increase the likelihood of the behavior occurs. Reinforce play a vital role in increasing or decreasing a behavior. For example, here parents want to change the behavior or increase the likelihood of the behavior.

For that, they praise their child for keeping the room clean. Even we all use reinforcement in our everyday routine. The reinforcement can be positive or negative. Both reinforce increase the likelihood of the behavior that occurs. Thus here the result is that the consequences of the pinching were that a reinforce.