Do you reinforce your child w/primaries during AVB even if it's a prompted resp.

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Hi again fellow ABA'ers,

I want to thank the people who sent me e-mails on " which comes first asking

or answering questions " . I will also do so this weekend in private messages.

One more quick question has arisen for me. Being an old Lovaasite DTTer , we

didn't give primary reinforcers on prompted reponses unless we were doing

mass trialing.

I myself feel that if the response is prompted you can say good or alright

secondary

reinforcers (social praise specifically). Then continue on to teach that item

until your getting unprompted independent responses. Once you get an

independent response then primary reinforce. You may change to working on

another or other items then return to that item to see if you get an

independent response; if you do social praise " That's great ( differential

reinforce) " & deliver the primary paired w/ the social praise.

I believe our consultant says to give the primary reinforcer whether its

prompted or not just to keep things going & the child happy at learning.

I'm kind of torn on this matter. If you don't do your job right a couple of

times you get fired right? If you don't win a medal ( & all the money that

usually follows) during the Olympics people might get social praise for

having been there but, it's " try again during the " next Olympics " . Then if

you get it right you win the medal ( & all the money that usually follows).

Well, if anyone can enlighten me I'd appreciate it.

Thanks again for your responses on the other question matter. I'll write a

memo to the list summarizing the responses.

Sincerely,

Larry - 8yr old 's, 1/2 century old dad