What is an example of time out from positive reinforcement?
Otis Kunze
2025-07-14 21:50:55
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Cooper, Heron and Heward state that time-out is defined as the withdrawal of the opportunity to earn positive reinforcement, or the loss of access to positive reinforcers for a specified period of time, contingent on the occurrence of a behaviour.
Exclusionary time-out involves removing the child from the reinforcers or reinforcing environment while non-exclusionary time-out removes the reinforcers from the child.
Example One: Everyone in Tom’s class has free-time and they are playing with toys of their choice, during this free-time, Tom punches one of his classmates, Non-Exclusionary Time-Out: The teacher guides Tom to the time-out chair within the classroom where he has to sit and watch as his classmates enjoy free-time.
He must sit there for 2 minutes.
Example Two: Brian was enjoying playing with a soccer ball in the playground but then kicks it at another student to hurt them, Non-Exclusionary Example: If the teacher took the ball off Brian for 10 minutes but let him remain in the playground this would be a non-exclusionary time-out as he has lost access to the soccer ball but remains within the environment.
Basically, the difference between these two forms of time-out is down to whether the person remains in the environment the behaviour occurred in but loses access to reinforcers or are completely removed from the environment itself.
Withdrawing a Specific Reinforcer: removing a positive reinforcer from a child for engaging in a target behaviour.
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