Jason has difficulty paying attention and staying on task during class. He is not a "discipline problem" in the sense that he distracts other students. Instead he simply spends his time drawing pictures in his notebook. Nevertheless, he clearly is not achieving important classroom objectives. Explain how you might use each of the following techniques to improve his classroom behavior: a. Cueing
b. Contingency contract c. Shaping For each technique, be specific and concrete as to what you might do.
What will be an ideal response?
a. Cueing involves providing a signal that a particular behavior should stop. The response should describe giving a particular signal to Jason that he is not attending to classroom activities or his schoolwork.
b. A contingency contract involves having a teacher and student sign a written contract in which the student agrees to behave in a certain way and the teacher agrees to follow such behavior with a specified reinforcer. The response should describe Jason and his teacher developing and signing such a contract.
c. Shaping involves reinforcing successive approximations to a desired terminal behavior. The response should describe a series of steps through which Jason is reinforced for increasingly more attentive behavior.
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