About: Blain Hockridge

The four functions of behavior are attention, escape, access to tangibles, and automatic reinforcement, often remembered by the acronym SEAT. Many behaviors can be understood through these common functional categories. Once you have a sense of what's driving a behavior, you can stop guessing at consequences and start teaching a replacement that meets the same…

Four behavioral terms cause the most confusion in school meetings: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, function, and extinction. A reward isn’t automatically positive reinforcement; negative reinforcement removes something aversive rather than punishing; function is the consequence maintaining a behavior; and extinction is the procedure of discontinuing that reinforcement. [xyz_feat_school] As a graduate student in behavior analysis,…