Description
Post by Day 3: Select and provide a description of a single problem behavior that could be maintained by any one of the following: (a) social positive reinforcement, (b) social negative reinforcement, and (c) automatic reinforcement. Next, give an example of how your selected problem behavior could be maintained by each of these three means. Provide a hypothetical Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence (ABC) analysis for one of the three. Finally, explain how your intervention would differ based on the function of the behavior.

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PROBLEM BEHAVIOR
Problem behavior is behavior that can be defined as a social problem, as a source of
concern, or as undesirable by the social and/or legal norms of conventional society and its
institutions of authority; it is behavior that usually elicits some form of social control response,
whether minimal, such as a statement of disapproval, or extreme, such as incarceration. It can
also be said to be a symptomatic expression of emotional or interpersonal maladjustment
especially in children (as by nail-biting, enuresis, negativism, or by overt hostile or antisocial
acts).
Taking Shower –Problem Behavior
John comes home in the evening from a football match. Having played in the sun the
whole afternoon, he is full of sweat and smelling. He therefore decides to take a shower. This is
what John does every time he comes from a football match. We therefore see a behavior that is
repeated to achieve specific results. John takes shower to remove bad smell from his body.
According to (Morrison, 2011), reinforcement is a reigning process whereby a specific behavior
is held together by the immediate outcome that amicably follows a given occurrence. Hence to
feasibly build up a be...
