ABSTRACT
“In the future, the people should differentially reinforce a more appropriate alternative response. Instead of just saying, "Good", Coach Craigflower could say, "Good follow-through", or "Good grip". It often helps to do task analyses when training complex behaviors: sports, dance, table manners, writing poetry, doing a behavior analysis. Differential punishment of uncrafts manlike behavior-looking at the hammer instead of the nail. Differential punishment differs only slightly from plain punishment, as differential reinforcement differs only slightly from plain reinforcement: Plain punishment and differential punishment are comparable. In everyday life, the loss of reinforcers differentially punishes much of the people behavior—that old negative punishment contingency. Bill was an adolescent with a profound mental disability who had been living in a state institution for over 10 years.
