Forgot password? Sign Up

Blogs about: Extinction Burst

Featured Blog

A Moment of Clarity?

defyingptsd wrote 2 weeks ago: Trigger Warning: bpd mom’s rage, splitting, attack and harassment- can be triggering if you ha … more →

Tags: ptsd, My Story !, Emotional Abuse, BPD Mother, splitting, bpd rage, harassment, guilt tripping, TRIGGER WARNING

National Train Your Dog Month: Demand Barking5 comments

cogdogtrainer wrote 4 months ago: Demand barking is any kind of barking or vocalizing that the dog is doing in order to gain something … more →

Tags: National Train Your Dog Month, 'demand' barking, barking dogs

Goodbye to old (bad) habits11 comments

Mudmap wrote 5 months ago: photocredit jepoirrier A lot of New Year’s Resolutions are about breaking the bad habits of th … more →

Tags: Brain stuff, Psychology and Society, Pavlov, Psychology, Habits, Skinner, New Year's Resolutions, losing weight, B.F. Skinner

Humanity's Awakening: Pink toenails on boys and media tantrums are all good2 comments

amberhj wrote 1 year ago: As someone who owns a gorgeous multi-hued J.Crew scarf and wears it every single day as evidence tha … more →

Tags: Lessons in parenting, Motherhood, Commentary and whatnot, parenthood, tantrums, J Crew, pink toenails on boy, Jenna Lyons, keith ablow

Three Words I Hate10 comments

Flannery wrote 1 year ago: In-home ABA therapy continues for 11 hours each week, spread over 4 different days.  As the weeks go … more →

Tags: Parenting, Spectrum/Parenting blogs, ADHD, aspergers-syndrome, Family, disabilities, Reading, aba therapy, hold the demand

Not reaching your goal? It may be an extinction burst.

Sarah Gillen wrote 1 year ago: Have you ever been working on something – losing weight, being more patient with coworkers, exercisi … more →

Tags: Life, self-criticism, Be Present, Mindfulness, self doubt, Value Yourself, completing projects, Difficulty completing projects, giving yourself credit

Week 1 in Review

myautismspecialist wrote 1 year ago: Today concludes the first complete week of My Autism Specialist.  I am excited about the page views … more →

Tags: Weekly Reviews, Autism, PDD, ABA, PDD-NOS, theory of mind, extinction, stimming, self-stimulatory behavior

David's Extinction Burst

myautismspecialist wrote 1 year ago: In writing a recent article on extinction burst, the following story came to mind.  I believe that y … more →

Tags: David Stories, Autism, PDD, ABA, PDD-NOS, extinction

Extinction Burst4 comments

myautismspecialist wrote 1 year ago: In writing about effectively employing “I’m not discussing this anymore”, it brought up another conc … more →

Tags: Other Concepts, Autism, PDD, ABA, PDD-NOS, extinction

I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In

bigfatqueer wrote 1 year ago: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. The human is a complicated beast and our/my relationship with food is just a sm … more →

Tags: Eat Less Move More, B. F. Skinner, Conditioning, Free Will

Extinction Burst135 comments

David McRaney wrote 1 year ago: The Misconception: If you stop engaging in a bad habit, the habit will gradually diminish until it d … more →

Tags: Addiction, Cognition, Conditioning, Evolutionary Psychology, introspection, B. F. Skinner, Diet, dog whisperer, Supernanny

What Children Need From Parents III: Beware the Extinction Burst!

drgeraldstein wrote 2 years ago: Popular culture gives us just enough information to be confused. Not surprisingly, many parents who … more →

Tags: Psychology, Wisdom, Psychotherapy, Advice, Life, Therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, CBT, Counseling

What Children Need From Parents II: On Slot Machines and Candy Machines

drgeraldstein wrote 2 years ago: Do your kids see you as more like a candy machine or a slot machine? It’s not a silly question … more →

Tags: Psychology, Wisdom, Psychotherapy, Advice, Therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, CBT, Counseling, assertiveness

Response Burst

noma wrote 4 years ago: Statisitics. I was looking at our stats — there was a huge jump during the debt reduction carn … more →

Tags: Parenting, back in the swing, ADHD, statistics


Have your say. Start a blog.

See our free features →

Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS