Problem:
Consider the scenario below:
Alex, a 6-year-old child with Prader-Willi Syndrome, has difficulty tying their shoes. Their parents have tried several times to teach Alex, but they still struggle with the task.
Select a simple, evidence-based intervention to support the development of a desired behavior (this can be an antecedent or consequence intervention).
Describe your intervention procedures technologically (i.e., in enough detail so that someone could implement your intervention), including how you will integrate your schedule of reinforcement. Provide a brief rationale to explain why you feel the type of schedule is most appropriate and how you determined the rate of reinforcement. Need Assignment Help?
Discuss how the matching law might play a role in how you design your intervention and reinforcement.
Use the reading materials below to provide in-text citations and references.
Review Chapter 11 in Applied Behavior Analysis: "Positive Reinforcement"
Review Chapter 12 in Applied Behavior Analysis: "Negative Reinforcement"
Read Chapter 13 in Applied Behavior Analysis: "Schedules of Reinforcement."
Read Chapter 6 in Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis: "Matching and Behavioral Momentum: Quantifying Choice and Persistence"
Concurrent schedules of differential reinforcement of alternative behavior in the treatment of problem behavior without extinction. Fleck et al. (2023)
Evaluation of a break-to-choice chained-schedule intervention for multiply maintained problem behavior. Livingston et al. (2023)