Sitting in his seat is chosen as the incompatible behavior because it cannot occur at the same time as out of seat behavior. She decides to reinforce a behavior that is incompatible with out of seat behavior. In other words, only behaviors that cannot occur simultaneously with the problem behavior are reinforced.Įxample: Kevin engages in out of seat behavior so his teacher decides to implement a DRI procedure. Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates (DRL)ĭRI - this procedures entails only reinforcing behaviors that are incompatible with the problem behavior while withholding reinforcement for the problem behavior.Differential Reinforcement of Other behavior (DRO).Differential Reinforcement of Alternative behavior (DRA).Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible behavior (DRI).There are four forms of differential reinforcement: For any other response, the student does not receive reinforcement. For example, if the target behavior is for the learner to point to the color blue when instructed to, 'Point to blue,' he is only reinforced when pointing to the color blue. Differential reinforcement is defined as reinforcing a specific class of behavior while withholding reinforcement for other classes of behavior. Behavior change using principles of applied behavior analysis can be done with nonpunishment procedures using differential reinforcement.
