Question

Mr. henderson wanted to stop elijahs hand flapping. he consulted with the iep committee and they decided to use hand weight to make the hand flapping more difficult in order to reduce the behavior. the behavioral procedure employed is _______.

Answer 1

The correct answer to this question is: “Sensory extinction”.

Sensory extinction is a process of eliminating self-stimulatory activities in developmentally disabled children. Reinforcement is provided to discontinue or eliminate the occurrences of these activities. In this case, Mr. Henderson is using weights (reinforcement) to eliminate Elijah’s hand flapping activity.