Reinforcement, In Both Directions Dr. Skinner defined a positive reinforcer as anything that strengthened a given behavior.
As such, clinicians and researchers targeting stereotypy should plan to strengthen an appropriate alternative behavior while targeting all response forms of stereotypy for reduction.
The essence of a collaboration exercise, as opposed to strategic exercises and drills, is to help strengthen an organization's cross-boundary behavior (Moynihan 2009).
– Some implementing partners use one or more of these models, but blending these into a single behavioral framework can unify, systematize, and strengthen the behavior change strategy.
One of the ways a researcher-identified reward, such as sticker or trinket, may fail to maintain task compliance is that the reward does not have the capability to function as a reinforcer, which strengthens or makes a behavior more likely to occur (e.g., completing an fMRI task).
Explanations of the effect are complicated because the reinforcing consequence can only be defined as a positive reward if it does indeed strengthen the behavior on which it is contingent.
A June 17 editorial, "That Extra Hurdle at the Airport," noted steps that the Transportation Security Administration has taken to strengthen our behavior detection program, but we object to your characterization of the program.
Reinforcement will strengthen preceding behavior regardless of whether the behavior is correct or incorrect [ 90].
Although all youth engaging in high risk sex should be targeted, lower condom use at last sex reported in the villages points to the need for programs that ensure availability of condoms and strengthen appropriate behavior change strategies.
The bidirectional relationship between identity change and behavior change is emphasized in identity change theory (Kearney & O'Sullivan, 2003), which posits that a conflict between values/goals and behavior initiates a step toward behavior change, and if successful, this behavior change can lead to an identity shift that will further strengthen the new behavior.
