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Parenting Time-Out: Behavioral Principles, Practice, and Limitations

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Summary

This lesson introduces time-out as a parenting and behavior-management technique, explains its basic purpose, and traces its early development.

A time-out temporarily removes a child from an environment or activity in which an unacceptable behavior occurred. The child has reduced access, for a short time, to enjoyable activities, people, or other sources of reinforcement. The intended effect is to make the problem behavior less likely to happen again.

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Time-out
A brief reduction in access to a reinforcing environment or activity after behavior, intended to reduce its future occurrence.
Negative punishment
Temporarily removing something reinforcing after a behavior to make that behavior less likely.
Arthur W. Staats
The psychologist who developed, named, and used the time-out concept in behavioral research beginning in 1958.
Montrose Wolf
A researcher who helped spread time-out through research and training after working with Staats.
Time-in
An alternative that moves a child from a difficult situation while maintaining caregiver connection.

Quiz questions

  1. What distinguishes a release-contingency time-out from a fixed-duration time-out?Answer: Release depends on the child meeting a specified condition, such as being calm briefly.
  2. Why does the child's usual environment need to be positive and reinforcing for time-out to work as intended?Answer: Returning to it makes the temporary loss of access meaningful.
  3. What is a replacement behavior in a behavior-management plan?Answer: An appropriate behavior taught and reinforced as an alternative to the problem behavior.
  4. What should behavior analysts generally consider before using punishment procedures?Answer: Differential reinforcement and extinction procedures.

Based on the Wikipedia article Time-out (parenting), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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