For this assignment please find a short video clip online where punishment is occurring. Based on what we covered in class so far, I would like you to identify the ABC's. The main behavior involved in the video, the antecedents to the behavior, and the consequences of the behavior using the terms and terminology we have learned from the book, class, and other sources.
Keep these questions in mind when formulating your response. Is there an establishing operation involved? Any discriminitive stimulus? What is the context? Is it positive or negative punishment? Who / what is eliciting the behavior? Who is emitting it? Etc.?
Use these questions when you formulate your video repsonse - don't simply answer each questions.
Finally, please make a list of the behavioral terms used in your response.
This is due Friday - however since the Thursday and Friday due dates are so close together you can send this in on Saturday if you like.
Let me know if you have any questions,
--Dr. M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz8AuKmItwM
SeaWorld's Punishment For Shamu
Before answering the questions, I would like to point out that I am answering the questions based on the ending that Shamu was punished by being put into isolation. Because this is a video that Dave Letterman put together, there is a spin to it. Once you watch it, you will know what I mean.
A= Working with trainer
B= Shamu dragged trainer to bottom of water
C= Shamu was put into isolation away from other whales
Because the video doesn't really explain the context of the situation, I'm going to say that the whale had been trained too long with little positive reinforcement. The trainer elicited the whales angry reaction. For this reason, the whale became angry and emitted the behavior of attacking the trainer. I think the whale's consequence was of negative punishment. I say this because the whale was removed of his/her fun loving environment with the other whales and put into isolation.
Punished, context, positive reinforcement, elicited, reaction, emitted, consequence, negative punishment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM
This video is of a little boy and his baby brother. The antecedent to the behavior is the little boy putting his finger in his brother's mouth, the behavior is the baby brother biting his finger, and the consequence is his finger "really hurting". I would say that the discriminative stimulus in this video would be the boy putting his finger in his brother's mouth. The baby brother is more likely to emit a biting behavior on his brother's finger once he put his finger in his mouth. The first time the boy puts his finger in his brother's mouth, which elicits a biting behavior, his brother bites it. The boy gets positively reinforced with laughter, so he tries it again. The second time his baby brother bites his finger, he emits a stronger biting behavior, which also lasts longer. It then hurts his older brother, which punishes him and makes it less likely the boy will put his finger in his baby brother's mouth again.
discriminative stimulus, emit, elicit, positively reinforced, punish
The video Im using is of a guy on his dads race bike. He's trying to do a burnout for his friend on the bike and in the end his inexperience is made pretty apparent. The antecedent in this video is a guy on a bike, the behavior is him trying to show off for a friend and perform a burnout, which ultimately leads us to the consequence in which he slips the clutch and put the bike into gear and crashes into a parked car. He was clearly trying to elicit to his friend that he was "cool" or was emitting the behavior that he knew how to do a burnout and his friend was providing reinforcement by encouraging this guy. I would say a definite discriminative stimulus in the video is upon this guy crashing the bike into the parked car. He clearly knows this is going to be a problem, and we also know this is an establishing operation because the young man crashing the bike into the car is the consequence of his behavior. I would think in my opinion that this would have to be a negative punishment for the guy. Because he let the clutch slip and the bike went into gear he crashed. So this should effectively increase the likelihood that next time he'll make sure the clutch doesn't slip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPOEw-qAuak
ABC's, emit, elicit, reinforcement, negative reinforcement, discriminative stimulus, establishing operation.
In this video you see a kid standing on the back of a couch bouncing a giant blue ball. He then jumps off the couch to bounce onto the ball and ends up throwing himself into the wall.
Antecedent = Standing on the couch bouncing the ball.
Behavior = The kid jumps off the couch.
Consequence = The kid barely hits the ball and hits the wall.
The act of jumping off the couch was probably elicited from past contexts of bouncing in general (bouncing is fun therefore bouncing off this ball will be fun). With this in mind he emits the behavior of jumping onto the ball. After he jumps he almost misses the ball and receives an aversive response by hitting the wall head first. The physical punishment serves as a negative reinforcer and hopfully the kid won't be trying this again. At least not by any walls.
Antecedent, behavior, consequence, elicited, context, emit, aversive, response, punishment, negative reinforcement.
Kid Gets Owned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuljzU5egog
I chose a video of the famous Steve Bartman incident at Wrigley Field in Chicago. While the video doesn't show the punishment in its entirety, Bartman had things thrown at him as he was being removed from the game for interfering with a ball in play.
Antecedent: Baseball player hits ball down left field line as Bartman stands up to watch the flight of ball and action of the play
Behavior: Bartman interferes with Cubs outfielder Moises Alou and fatefully prevents him from making the catch
Punishment: Bartman is removed from the ballgame, has food and beer thrown at him, and is pretty much forced to leave the city of Chicago and attempt to start a new life
Bartman emitted deep regret in the Chicago newspapers; still however, his actions elicited a strong negative reaction from Cubs fans alike as that play proved crucial in turning the inning and as some think, arguably the series around. Although I am a Cubs fan, I still feel bad for the guy--his life was basically ruined in a split second. The Cubs fanbase is deeply seated with passion and loyalty and want nothing else but to win their first world series in a century. Still, once the baseball was hit, it truly was a discriminatory stimulus. Most people bring their gloves to the game to catch a foul ball and as you will notice when you watch the video, he was not the only one attempting to catch the ball. In this context, however, he should have left the ball alone to give Moises Alou a chance to catch the ball. In the end, fair or not, he was made the scapegoat and punished wholeheartedly by Cubs nation.
Terms: discriminatory stimulus, antecedent, behavior, consequence, punishment
Here is the link for the Steve Bartman video analysis comment which didn't end up on the post! My bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVFVgiylgYs
The video that i have decided to use is the one titled "Charlie Bit Me" I am sure everyone has seen the video. In the video the older brother places his finger into his younger brothers mouth and elicits his brother "Charlie" to bite his finger. The behavior here is the action of Charlie biting his brothers finger. The antecedent of this behavior is the fact that the brother for some odd reason decided to put his finger into Charlies mouth. The consequence of having his finger bit is that it hurt. This would be an example of a negative reinforcement because the action of biting produces a consequence that suggest this behavior should not happen again. In this particular situation there is a discriminative stimulus in this situation is that by having his finger in Charlies mouth it is an automatic response to bite down. Another reason that Charlie might be more apt to bit his older brothers finger is he is at the age where he is probably teething.
Terms: antecedent, negative reinforcement, consequence, behavior, discriminative stimulus, elicits.
A- The boy is sitting on the computer, playing games.
B- He refuses to do his laundry.
C- His dad takes away his privileges of using the computer and Xbox.
The boy is being elicited by his father to complete his laundry. The boy emits a defiant behaviors and emits throwing and pounding behaviors. The reason the dad takes away computer privileges because the operant behaviors of using the computer is what is keeping the boy from emitting the behavior of completing his laundry. The computer acts as a discriminative stimulus because it is keeping the boy from completing his chores. The boy does not learn from his consequences because he does not listen to his dad. His dad continues to give consequences but he does not follow them. The consequences reach a level of satiation because the boy does not follow them and continues to play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Nr2Yx8r9w
This video is a short clip from an American Idol audition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAvt9DmpuUQ&feature=related
A- The man is at an American Idol audition.
B- He sings for the judges.
C- They deny him the right to go to Hollywood and criticize him.
The bad singing of the man elicits a negative response from Simon especially. Simon and all the judges emit criticism and denial of a trip to Hollywood due to his terrible singing. The context for this singing is very important in this situation. If the man was not singing this at an American Idol audition, the response could have very been different. If he had been at a party with good friends for instance, the response might have been laughter and enjoyment of the scene. However, the discriminative stimulus involved being in a situation with professional singing judges which was not in his favor. This audition seems to be an example of both positive punishment and negative punishment. It was positive in that Simon said he sounded terrible, which was an aversive response. However, part of the punishment was also the fact that the man was denied a trip to Hollywood, which is the removal of something he hoped to obtain. This would be negative punishment. This man probably never tried out for American Idol again, so the behavior decreased. However, his reaction when he says that he will keep singing is a hard response to explain in terms of the punishment he received.
Terms: positive and negative punishment, aversive, emit, elicit, discriminative stimulus, context, ABCs
The video I chose is of a police officer and a driver (the person is never seen). In this video the person is stopped for emitting a speeding behavior, but the police officer is lenient in his authority. Soon after the officer walks away, the person smashes the patrol car. The antecedent is the officer making a traffic stop. The behavior is the officer eliciting a lenient behavior. The consequence is the patrol car getting smashed. I would say that the discriminative stimulus in the video is the police officer being lenient. So in this context, the consequence would reduce the frequency of the officer being lenient in the future and, therefore, was a negative reinforcement or punishment. And since something else was added to this situation – that would be the car getting smashed – which turned into a positive punishment.
Emitting, antecedent, behavior, eliciting, consequence, discriminative stimulus, context, negative reinforcement, punishment, positive punishment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j3w1QfV35I&feature=channel
This is a clip from the Tv show, "The People's Court." The antecedent is being in court. The Behavior is a second year law student gets in a heated disagreement with the judge. And the consequence is the law student gets chewed out by the judge. He is aversively effected by this consequence because his pride was surely insulted in the process.
He elicted the judge's wrath by emitting the behavior of saying, "Well that's your opinion."
I would certainly use behavior modification to change his behavior. My target behaviors would be to treat others with respect and to control himself when he is emotionally upset. I would use positive reinforcements to increase the occurrence of these behaviors because I believe they're more effective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJnA_mt_UA
Terms: antecedent, behavior, consequence, aversive, emit, elicit, target behaviors, positive reinforcement.
So I know that it's sort of pushing it, but I for some reason had a super hard time trying to find a video on punishment. The ABC goodness takes place at the end of the video.
So the goofy video is about 3 unicorns going on an adventure, and one doesn't want to, but still does and punishment comes out of going with the other 2. The antecedent is the unicorns traveling on a mountain, the behavior is the unicorn going into the dark cave, and the consequence is that he gets his kidney removed involuntarily (hehe).
The discriminative stimulus I think is maybe that the unicorn is going into the cave even though he knows something bad will happen. This is definitely negative reinforcement, and the unicorn is the one eliciting the behavior to go into the cave. The other 2 unicorns I think are emitting the behavior of coaxing the 3rd one to go into the cave.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGUT0K3yRaM
Girlfriend destroying her bf's PS3. WARNING: adult language used. Do not play around little kids, grandma, boss, carebears etc.
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/12/hot-girlfriend-destroys-ps3-1517478
So in this video the girl is really upset with her boyfriend because apparently all he does is sit around and play ghostbusters on his PS3. I would say this is the antecedent to her behavior. I would say the discriminative stimuli is that it's 3 in the morning and he's still on the couch playing. She seemed really steamed about this point. This stimuli elicits her to emit a smashing behavior all over his PS3. This is negative punishment for her bf's playing behavior. It's negative because it takes away something, mainly his PS3. Conversely I would say that this is positive reinforcement for her. I bet it felt good to smash that PS3. It's likely she would display similar behavior in the future.
antecedent, discriminative stimuli, elicit, emit, negative punishment, positive reinforcement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2y4X_eFWCQ
Britney Spears loses right to see children
Antecedent: Britney Spears loses custody to children
Behavior: Britney continues to engage in partying behaviors and using illegal substances.
Consequence: Britney loses the right to spend time with her children.
The context for this video is that Britney Spears’ divorce from Kevin Federline and presence in the partying atmosphere of Beverly Hills elicited partying and other irresponsible behavior from her. Britney was unable to party excessively AND care for her children properly. Initially, the courts simply punished Britney by taking away her custodial rights. However, this failed to completely cure Britney of her need to party and “act out” publicly. She continued to party and emit irresponsible behaviors. After she emitted too much partying behavior and ceased caring properly for her children, the courts decided to punish her by taking away her right to spend time with her children. I think the establishing operation in this video is depriving Britney of time with her children. The courts hoped that by using deprivation as a consequence, they could prompt the pop star to behave more responsibly. This punishment is negative because the court is taking away something (spending time with her children) from the singer.
Elicited, punished, emit, emitted, punish, establishing operation depriving, deprivation, negative punishment, consequence
The video I chose is a video clip of former US Olympic runner Marion Jones on the day she entered jail. The antecedent of her behavior is that she was training for the Olympic games in Sydney. Her behavior was taking performance enhancing drugs and then lying about it. the consequence of her actions is that she had to spend time in jail and return all five of her medals from the Olympics. The context of her behavior is that she did something wrong and did not want to be punished for it, which is why she lied about what she did. There are discriminative stimulus in place for Olympic athletes and drug testing, but was not enough to deter Marion Jones for cheating. She was punished in several ways. She had positive punishment by serving jail time. she had negative punishment for having to give her medals back. She was eliciting a cheating behavior.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry0NDYpViYg&NR=1&feature=fvwp
ABCs, Context, punishment, positive and negative punishment, elicit, discriminative stimulus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2D3hB278Gc
The video I chose is of a person driving while texting. It shows a a bus driver texting for 6 minutes before crashing into the back of another vehicle.
A= Driving the bus
B= Texting while driving
C= Rear ending another vehicle (from not paying attention to the road)
This is a negative punishment because I'm sure the bus driver was injured in some way, and this is likely to decrease his behavior of texting while driving, especially since he had other passengers with him. In the context of driving, it is important to not text while driving since it is likely to result in an accident.
The behavior he was emitting was texting, which elicited an accident.
The driver texting was also aversive for the passengers in the van, because being in an accident is unpleasant. The discriminative stimulus is that if you are texting while driving, you are likely to not pay attention to the road which could result in an accident.
negative punishment, context, behavior, emitting, elicited, aversive, unpleasant, antecedent, consequence, discriminative stimulus.
The video that I found was a man om Americas Dumbest Criminals. The man fell asleep in his car with his windows down while having crack in one hand and marijuana in the other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCPFhGr8FhI
Antecedent The man falling asleep in his car
Behavior Having illegal substances in the his presents
Consequence Police officer found him sleeping and charged him
This is negative punishment because the man who was found sleeping in the car got arrested for having illegal substances. His consequences for having the illegal substances was going to jail and I'm sure for a really long time. The man in the car elicit the behavior of falling asleep in the car and then drawing attention to himself. The police officer emitted him to be under arrest for having the illegal substance.
Terms: emit, elicit, negative punishment, consequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7F3O6WYfHQ - Nickelback gets hit with rocks and leaves the stage
The video I'm selecting is of the band Nickelback performing at a rock festival in Portugal. Some important context to the video is that many fans of rock music really, really dislike Nickelback; its basically cool to hate them. They get ripped for lack of creativity, overly produced mainstream sound and image, their simple guitar parts, pretty much everything. They'd be considered sellouts, except most of those people didn't like them in the first place (or at least they say they didn't). I really don't like their music, I think its repetitive, contrived, and its vibe really rubs me the wrong way, but I'm not as extreme as some of those haters out there. At least, I don't think I'd throw rocks at them.
Anyway, the antecedent for video would be Nickelback performing at a rock festival with various other bands, meaning that there are various other rock music fans there. the presence of those other bands would be a discriminative stimulus, as just their presence means the crowd will probably be anti-Nickelback. The behavior I chose to single out was Chad Kroeger asking "Have we got any Nickelback fans in Portugal?" and "Up to you, do you want to hear some rock and roll or do you want to go home?" And the consequence would be the crowds response, which including booing and throwing rocks at the band. The lead singer emitted an inquisitive behavior, which elicited an aversive response from the crowd, a rock throwing behavior. Nickelback's satiation of all forms of media, namely (obviously) rock radio, could be an establishing operation of the crowd's reaction.
The crowd's reaction would be considered a punishment for the behavior of asking the question of the crowd, and in the future the band may handle the situation by not asking that question.
Alternatively, you could say Nickelback leaving the stage was the removal of something aversive, which would lead to an increase in rock throwings and booing next time these people are exposed to a band they don't like, because the throwing caused Nickelback to leave the stage. So that would fit the definition of negative reinforcement. But that doesn't quite match up with the ABCs I established earlier.
context, antecedent, discriminative stimulus, behvior, consequence, emit, elicit, aversive, satiation, establishing operation, punishment, negative reinforcement
The video I chose involves a roommate seeking revenge on his roommate for slamming the apartment door at 7:30 am everyday. The antecedent is living with a roommate. The behavior is the roommate slamming the door in the morning. The behavior is the roommate getting a prank pulled on him. The establishing operation is the aversive feeling the roommate felt each time he fell and hurt himself. The need for the roommate to leave at 7:30 each morning was eliciting the behavior, the roommate was emitting the behavior of slamming the door when he left. The consequence is definitely negative punishment for the slamming of the door.
Terms: emit, elicit, negative punishment, aversive, consequence, establishing operation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UN5rflW3iY
The video I chose is from the sitcom Roseanne. The episode starts with Roseanne finding pot in her daughter's boyfriends room. She then remembers that the pot is hers and smokes it but has consequences she wasn't expecting.
The antecedent of the behavior was finding the pot and then remembering that it was hers. The discriminative stimulus is the pot because it elicited the behavior of Roseannne smoking it. Roseanne, her husband, and her sister then emitted the behavior of smoking the pot. The operant behavior is smoking pot because it produced a consequence. The consequence of the behavior was that Roseanne then felt like a horrible mother. This is negative reinforcement because it took away Roseanne's confidence as a mother. The consequence was aversive which decreases the likelihood of Roseanne emitting this behavior again.
Terms: antecedent, discriminative stimulus, elicit, emit, operant behavior, consequence, negative reinforcement, aversive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5dqUOENLZI&feature=related
The above clip is a funny advertisement for a website you can send videos to for a chance to win a free engagement ring. The commercial itself is trieing to reinforce your "going to their website" behavior but the man in the commercial is punished, and that is what my analysis is on.
Antecedents- Deciding you want to get married.
Behavior- Proposing by writing "Will you marry me?" In the snow...
Consequence- Your g/f gets incredibly mad and turns you down.
In the clip the man emit's the behavior of urinating "Will you marry me?" in the snow, expecting it to elicit a positive response from his girlfriend. It's possible that the man anticipated this to be an establishing operation, hoping that coming up with a fun and unique way of asking his g/f to marry him would increase the reinforcing power of his question increasing the likelihood that she would then emit some a positive, accepting behavior.
In actuality his behavior elicited a negative response and thus he is less likely (punishment) to ask his b/f to marry him without putting more thought into it. I beleive this is positive punishment because his girlfriend presented him with an aversive stimulus (frowns, and anger). However, depending on how mad she gets, if the girlfriend chose to leave him this may be considered negative punishment. The removal of a pleasurable stimulus (his relationship status) in order to decrease the likelihood that he emits bizarre proposals.
We can assume that in the absense of any form of reinforcement his bizarre proposal behavior is now extinct.
The video I chose was on YouTube called How To Stop Biting Your Nails. Nail biting is often a habit that people try to lessen and, in this case, to stop, which is why it is punishment and not reinforcement. The video recommends putting a bitter tasting nail solution on your nails. The aversive taste of the solution will help prevent you from biting your nails. The video also recommends getting a toothpick or piece of gum. This will elicit a chewing behavior on either the toothpick or gum, rather than your nails.
A= Chewing Nails
B= Putting bitter tasting solution on nails and having a toothpick or gum
C= Chews on toothpick or gum rather than nails
I would say that this is positive punishment as the presense of the solution and toothpick or gum is added. Nothing in this case is being taken away in order to lessen the amount of nail biting, meaning that it is not negative punishment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NmD7BXdPxI
Terms: punishment (positive and negative), reinforcement, aversive, elicit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgnDSPdaZK0
This video is of a bird biting a woman’s finger as she tries to touch it. The antecedent to the behavior (or what elicits it) is a woman finding a bird in her yard. The behavior she is emitting is sticking her finger out toward the bird. The consequence is that the bird bites her finger. This is an aversive consequence, so she will most likely not do it again. Therefore, we can call this punishment because she will be less likely to emit the behavior in the future.
Terms: antecedent, behavior, elicits, emit, consequence, aversive
The video I chose was of people driving drunk with their cars full of the beverages they drank that night, they get pulled over for driving drunk and are arrested.
Antecedent- drinking
Behavior- Driving drunk
Consequence- Getting arrested
The consequence is aversive, so hopefully the drunk drivers will learn their lesson from being arrested and never drink and drive again. I would call this a positive punishment because when the guys driving drunk emmited a negative behavior they were punished by being arrested, which will hopefully teach them a lesson so that they will be safe drivers and keep others that are on the road safe.
Terms: Antecedent, behavior, consequence, aversive, punishment, negative, positive, emmited.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHytr5GocwY
For this assignment I chose the popular UK PSA video with the 3 girls who are texting and driving. This video is very gory and graphic, exemplifying the potential aversive response of what can happen when texting and driving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E&feature=related#watch-main-area
A= driving in a car with friends
B= texting while driving
C= multiple-car accident and death of others
This video is definitely an example of punishment because of the extremely aversive consequences. After being in a horrific accident and losing her best friends, the driver should learn to never text and drive again. Riding in the car with friends and talking about a boy acted as a discriminative stimulus, setting the occasion for the driver to emit the behavior of texting. This is an example of negative punishment, because when the girl chose to text and drive, she was responsible for the death of her friends.
Terms: punishment, setting the occasion, discriminative stimulus, aversive, response, antecedent, consequence, emit, negative punishment
This is a video clip from the movie the Hangover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLYGebO2bkY&feature=related
It is the scene where the guys are at the Las Vegas Police Station because they stole a cop car the night before while they were extremely intoxicated and they end up getting tased by a bunch of students who are on a field trip. The antecedent is the police station. The behavior elicited is the students using a taser on the guys in a demonstration. The consequence is the guys emitting a very aversive response to the taser by temporary paralysis and physical pain. The discriminative stimulus in this scene would be the police officers because they set the occasion for the punishment by encouraging the students to use the taser. Positive punishment is used in response to the behavior because the police officers want to decrease the frequency of the behavior and they will be less likely to emit the behavior of stealing a cop car while under the influence of alcohol in the future.
Terms: antecedent, behavior, consequence, punishment, aversive, elicit, emit, negative punishment, discriminative stimulus
The video that I have decided to use is the one titled "Charlie Bit Me.” In the video the older brother places his finger into his younger brother’s mouth and promotes his brother "Charlie" to bite his finger. The antecedent is that Charlie and his brother are sitting together hanging out. The behavior is Charlie’s brother’s finger being put into his mouth. The consequence to the behavior is Charlie biting his brother’s finger producing a painful sensation to Charlie’s brother. In this particular situation there is a discriminative stimulus. This discriminative stimulus presents itself in the automatic reaction of Charlie to bite down on his brother’s finger. When Charlie bites the finger he is emphasizing that he does not like his brother’s actions therefore promoting the target behavior. When Charlie’s brother gets bit it elicits an aversive response. This aversive response makes this fall under the category of punishment. More specifically positive punishment because nothing is being taken away in order to punish the older brother.
Terms: antecedent, positive punishment, consequence, behavior, discriminative stimulus, elicits, target behavior, aversive reaction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM
I enjoyed the post by Emily S. in which she discussed the "Charlie bit my finger" video. It was fun to see this video analyzed with behavior modification terms because I have seen it many times before and never given it any thought. The context of this behavior is that Charlie and his brother are together and probably without much to do, but also part of the context is the fact that they are being videotaped. We know that context can and does influence behavior, so this leads me to wonder whether Charlie and his brother would have emitted the same behaviors if they were not aware that they were being taped. Would Charlie have even been inclined to bite Charlie's finger in the first place? Another interesting thing about this video is the fact that the first time Charlie bit his brother's finger, he was positively reinforced (brother laughed), but the second time, he was positively punished (brother became angry). This is probably quite confusing for Charlie. It would be interesting to see if Charlie would bite his brother's finger in the future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRWcPoxmZos
This is a rather sad display of punishment. I'm going to give you a time out, do you want a time out, your in time out. It is too confusing for the child and ineffective. Time-out is a discipline technique that involves placing your child in a very boring place for several minutes immediately following unacceptable behavior. You are trying to correct misbehavior by using a timeout as punishment. It is only effective when used properly. This video doesn't show the antecedent, it only shows the childs behavior. It is important is understand the event that happens before the behavior. It is just as important to follow up a bad behavior with a correct consequence. Unfortunately in this video, the child doesn't understand his consequence. I don't understand his consequence!