A procedure for implementing time-out in which, contingent on the occurrence of a target behavior, the person is removed physically from the current environment for a specified period is called what?

A procedure for implementing time-out in which, contingent on the occurrence of a target behavior, the person is removed physically from the current environment for a specified period is called what?

• A. Time-out
• B. Exclusion time out
• C. Response cost
• D. Non-exclusion time-out

Answer: (B)

Time-out procedures involve briefly removing access to reinforcing stimuli after a target behavior. The scenario describes removing the person physically from the current environment for a specified period, which is the defining feature of exclusion time-out. In exclusion time-out, the learner is taken to a different, non-reinforcing location for the duration. This differs from non-exclusion time-out, where the learner remains in the same setting but cannot access reinforcers, and from response cost, which involves losing a previously earned reinforcement rather than being displaced from the environment. Therefore, the described procedure is exclusion time-out.

Time-out procedures involve briefly removing access to reinforcing stimuli after a target behavior. The scenario describes removing the person physically from the current environment for a specified period, which is the defining feature of exclusion time-out. In exclusion time-out, the learner is taken to a different, non-reinforcing location for the duration. This differs from non-exclusion time-out, where the learner remains in the same setting but cannot access reinforcers, and from response cost, which involves losing a previously earned reinforcement rather than being displaced from the environment. Therefore, the described procedure is exclusion time-out.