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Chapter 3: Escape
1. Name:_______________________________ Instructor:________________________ Grade: ______LO: 76
Chapter 3
Conceptual Work Sheets for
Escape
Definition:
Reinforcement contingency 3. What is the negative reinforcer in the Skinner box
□ The response contingent example?
□ presentation of reinforcer A. Shock
□ resulting in an increased frequency of that response. B. Food
C. Termination of Shock
Take a look at the generic reinforcement contingency: D. Termination of Food
Before Behavior After 4. Please explain why this is an example of escape (refer
to the definition):
No Behavior
Reinforcer Reinforcer
Definition:
Escape Contingency
□ The response contingent
□ removal of an aversive stimulus
□ resulting in an increased frequency of that response.
Here is a diagram of the basic escape contingency: Keeping it Clean
Before Behavior After
Sally usually leaves her room a total mess months on end.
Aversive Behavior Aversive One day she picked up her clothes. While Sally was
Stimulus stimulus picking up her clothes, her mom happened to walk past
is terminated the bedroom and noticed that she was cleaning. Sally’s
mom was so pleased that she complimented Sally on how
nice her room looked. In the future, Sally will pick up her
clothes more often. (Note that the reinforcer is probably
The Skinner Box not escape from a messy room; otherwise, she would have
been keeping it clean all along.)
1. Please diagram this example: Each time the shock turns
on, the rat presses the lever and the shock immediately 5. Diagram the contingency maintaining Sally’s behavior
turns off. (HINT: make sure her behavior passes the specific-
Before Behavior After behavior test):
Before Behavior After
2. Is it an escape contingency? 6. Is this a reinforcement contingency?
A. Yes A. Yes
B. No B. No (Revise!)
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2. The Suspicious Stomach Ache Use the Contingency Diagramming Checklist to analyze
this example.
When Johnny comes home from school he immediately 11. What type of contingency is this?
has to do his homework. However, Johnny would much A. Reinforcement
rather relax (who wouldn’t??). One day while doing his B. Escape
homework, Johnny told his mother he had a stomach ache.
Johnny’s mom let him go lie on the couch, and put off 12. What is Our term for Negative Reinforcement?
doing his homework, until he felt better. From that point A. Reinforcement
on, he complained of stomach aches much more B. Negative Reinforcer
frequently when doing his homework. (Note that having a C. Escape
stomach ache is not Johnny’s behavior in this
contingency. Instead his behavior is “complaining of a By the way, your pout stealing need not have been
stomach ache”.) intentional. In other words, you might have been
completely unaware of the escape contingency, where
7. Diagram the contingency for Johnny’s complaining: your pouting stopped Bob’s pouting; you might even have
Before Behavior After been unaware you were pouting.
Scientific fact: 50% of my undergrad students said they’ve
observed pout stealing previously. So why don’t you keep
your eyes open for examples of pout stealing and then
share them with your instructor and class. Wow, talk
about fun!
8. Is this an escape contingency?
A. Yes
B. No
Who’s on the Line?
Lisa usually talks to her best friend every night on the
9. What is the traditional term for the aversive stimulus in
phone. When the phone rings, she immediately answers it
the above example?
and is able to talk to her friend. (Note: “Talking on the
A. Aversive condition
phone” is an action and shouldn’t be in the before and
B. Negative Reinforcement
after boxes.) Assume that the ringing phone is not
C. Negative Reinforcer
aversive for Lisa.
Pout Stealing 13. Diagram the contingency for Lisa’s behavior:
Before Behavior After
Suppose your brother, Bob, pouts because life isn’t
working out the way he thinks it should; and, in spite of
your various efforts, he continues. Now here’s a little-
known trick: You can stop Bob’s pout by stealing it; by
pouting yourself. For some reason or another, pouting
seems to be a game only one person can play at a time. If 14. What type of contingency is this?
you manage to make your pout stronger than Bob’s, then A. Reinforcement
Bob will stop pouting (and he may even try to console B. Escape
you, but that’s not the point). An analysis of why it works
that way is a little complex, but often it does work out that Now suppose Lisa answers the phone and hears an
way. annoying salesperson instead of her friend. Lisa quickly
makes up the excuse that she is on her way out and
10. Please diagram the escape contingency supporting doesn’t have time to talk. Thus, she no longer has to listen
your pouting behavior. to the annoying sales person.
Before Behavior After
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3. 15. Diagram the contingency for Lisa’s behavior of 19. Now fill in the diagram
making up an excuse: Before Behavior After
Before Behavior After
16. What is the Traditional term for the contingency in 20. Now diagram the channel changing contingency as
the above example? reinforcement:
A. Punishment Before Behavior After
B. Negative Reinforcement
C. Escape
17. What type of contingency is this?
A. Reinforcement 21. What is the Traditional term for this contingency?
B. Escape A. Reinforcement
B. Positive Reinforcer
Is It Reinforcement or Escape? C. Positive Reinforcement
In some situations it is not clear whether a reinforcement PB vs Traditional Terms
or escape contingency is responsible for a person’s
behavior. This is often the case in situations involving
PB terms are quite different from the terms that traditional
temperature, for example. When a person is hot, he or she
psychology uses. So let’s test your knowledge of how well
turns on the air conditioning. By turning on the air
you can decipher them!
conditioning is the behavior being reinforced by the
aversive heat or is the behavior being reinforced by the
22. Fill in this handy dandy table
presentation of a lower temperature? Here are two
Traditional Ours
possible ways this situation may be diagrammed:
Positive Reinforcer
As an escape contingency: Reinforcement by the
presentation of a reinforcer
Before Behavior After
Hot air Turn on AC No hot air Your Original Example
Note: In the previous situation there may be more than one
As a reinforcement contingency:
possible correct analysis. However, situations such as this
are somewhat rare. When diagramming contingencies,
Before Behavior After
don’t be too quick to assume that a situations is
ambiguous. Usually there’s a specific correct answer, and
No cool air Turn on AC Cool air
we’re picky.
Now give an original example of an escape contingency.
Be sure to use an example that definitely is escape, rather
Now take a look at the following example:
than an ambiguous example that could also be interpreted
Johnny loves watching his Saturday morning cartoons.
as reinforcement.
However, he hates watching the commercials that
interrupt his cartoons. Whenever a commercial comes on,
23. Please describe your example:
he immediately takes the remote control and changes the
channel to another cartoon.
18. What aversive condition is being removed?
_____________________________________
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4. 24. Please diagram your example: 28. What is the before condition?
Before Behavior After (Major hint: Being told she can come would be a major
reinforcer for Susie.)
A. Absence of a reinforcer
B. Aversive condition
Use the Contingency Diagramming Checklist to analyze 29. What is the after condition?
this example. A. Presentation of a reinforcer
B. Removal of an aversive condition
25. Is it an escape contingency?
A. Yes 30. What type of contingency is maintaining Susie’s
B. No (If not, revise!) behavior?
A. Reinforcement
26. Please explain why this is an example of an escape B. Escape
contingency in terms of the definition
31. Please diagram the contingency maintaining Megan,
the victim’s behavior:
Before Behavior After
32. What is the before condition?
A. Absence of a reinforcer
27. Now, copy the preceding diagram onto your B. Aversive condition
transparency, using the relevant transparency master. But
you do not need to hand this transparency in with your 33. What is the after condition?
homework. A. Presentation of a reinforcer
B. Removal of an aversive condition
The Sick Social Cycle 34. What type of contingency is maintaining Megan’s
behavior?
Little Susie wants to be just like her older sister Megan. A. Reinforcement
Susie wants to do everything Megan does, but Megan B. Escape
wants nothing to do with her. When Megan is getting
ready to go to the movies or the mall, Susie, the
perpetrator, begs and begs Megan to let her go, too.
Megan, the victim, usually gets so tired of hearing Susie
whine that she gives in and lets her tag along.
Before Behavior After
Megan does Megan tells
not tell Susie Susie whines Susie she can
she can come come
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5. 35. Now please fill in the diagram for the whole sick social cycle (The contingency for Susie, the perpetrator, goes in the
top row; and the contingency for Megan, the victim goes in the second row)1.
Your Sick Social Cycle
(Victim’s Escape Model)
Remember that the first contingency is always some sort of reinforcement contingency, either
reinforcement by the presentation of a reinforcer or reinforcement by the removal of an aversive
condition; but, in either case, the perpetrator’s inappropriate behavior is reinforced.
Remember that the second contingency is always an escape contingency, where the victim’s
inappropriate escape behavior is reinforced.
1
We make a slight change in the rules for filling out the top two diagrams of these sick social cycles, because these two contingencies
describe social interactions between two people. For the top before condition, we would normally say, Susie can’t come; but because
Susie’s before condition is based on Megan’s behavior, we state that before condition in terms of Megan’s behavior—Megan tells
Susie she can’t come. That way, we can easily move the before and after conditions from the top two contingency diagrams down into
the sick social cycle diagram, where each item is behavior. Also, it’s OK, for the before and after conditions to include behavior, as
long as it’s not the behavior of the person in the behavior box; so in the top contingency diagram, it’s OK for the before and after
condition to be Megan’s behavior, but it cannot be Susie’s behavior.
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6. Who’s the Master and Who’s the Mastered
Juke’s Doberman, Spot, often comes up to the table
begging for food, with a cute little growl suggesting he’s
about to go for your throat. Finding this irritating, Juke
tosses the mutt a bone from his own plate to shut him up.
And this works….for a while. See Spot, the perpetrator,
growl. See Juke, the victim, cave in.
36. Diagram the contingency maintaining Spot, the
perpetrator’s, begging.
Before Behavior After
37. What is the before condition?
A. Absence of a reinforcer
B. Aversive condition
38. What is the after condition?
A. Presentation of a reinforcer
B. Removal of an aversive condition
39. What type of contingency is maintaining Spot’s
behavior?
A. Reinforcement
B. Escape
40. Diagram the contingency maintaining Juke, the
victim’s giving Spot a bone:
Before Behavior After
41. What is the before condition?
A. Absence of a reinforcer
B. Aversive condition
42. What is the after condition?
A. Presentation of a reinforcer
B. Removal of an aversive condition
43. What type of contingency is maintaining Juke’s
behavior?
A. Reinforcement
B. Escape
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7. 44. Now please fill in the diagram for the whole sick social cycle. (The contingency for Spot, the perpetrator, goes in the
top row; and the contingency for Juke, the victim, goes in the second row.)
Your Sick Social Cycle
(Victim’s Escape Model)
Remember that the first contingency is always some sort of reinforcement contingency, either
reinforcement by the presentation of a reinforcer or reinforcement by the removal of an aversive
condition; but, in either case, the perpetrator’s inappropriate behavior is reinforced.
Remember that the second contingency is always an escape contingency, where the victim’s
inappropriate escape behavior is reinforced.
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8. Your Original Example of a Sick Social Cycle
Now give your original example of a sick social cycle. 47. Is this a type of reinforcement (either reinforcement
or escape) contingency?
Here are some student examples, all of which are A. Yes
real, I believe: B. No (If not, revise!)2
Amy and her husband lift a heavy object; Amy whines, 48. Please diagram the example of the escape
so her husband escapes the whine by lifting the heavy contingency for the victim in your example and put it on
object alone. a transparency:
In the grocery store, Daddy doesn’t give autistic Joey Before Behavior After
bubble gum; Joey makes a disturbance, and you know
what happens.
Ed buys the Girl Scout’s cookies, which escapes her
aversive sales pitch. This may be common with
charitable solicitation, because it would be even more Use the Contingency Diagramming Checklist to analyze
morally aversive to say No to a worthy cause. your original example.
My 18 year old nephew gets money from my uncle, 49. Is it an escape contingency?
when he whines. A. Yes
B. No (If not, revise!)
The wife refuses sex with her husband, because she fears
his philandering has caused him to be HIV positive; but Finally, please fill out the diagram on the sick-social-
she relents to escape his beating her. cycle diagram on the next page.
The screaming child in church gets a sucker from Mom,
which shuts him up.
45. Please describe your example:
46. Please diagram the reinforcement contingency for the
perpetrator in your original example and put it on a
transparency:
Before Behavior After
2 Actually, the perpetrator’s contingency could be an escape
contingency too, for example, Bobby Brat, the perp., whines
when he has to do his homework, and Mellow Mom, the
victim, lets him off the hook. So you can use an escape
contingency for your perp. too, but be careful.
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9. 50. Now please fill in the diagram for the whole sick social cycle. (The contingency for the perpetrator, goes in the top
row; and the contingency for the victim, goes in the second row.)
Your Sick Social Cycle
(Victim’s Escape Model)
-Remember that the first contingency is always some sort of reinforcement contingency, either
reinforcement by the presentation of a reinforcer or reinforcement by the removal of an aversive
condition; but, in either case, the perpetrator’s inappropriate behavior is reinforced.
-Remember that the second contingency is always an escape contingency, where the victim’s
inappropriate escape behavior is reinforced.
51. Finally, copy the preceding diagram onto your transparency, using the master on this page-- remember,
lay your blank transparency over the transparency master and fill in the words, but don’t draw the diagram,
because your instructor has a transparency master, itself, on another transparency; so when you put yours on top
of your instructor’s, it’ll look way cool; but if you draw the diagram itself, it’ll look like crap. You do not need
to hand this in with your homework.
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