Ignoring is usually most effective for behaviors like whining, crying when nothing is physically wrong or hurting, and tantrums. These misbehaviors are often done for attention.
1) Only ignore behaviors that students do for attention.
Example attention-seeking behaviors include interruptions, making noises, and talking to other students. 2) Planned ignoring is never an appropriate strategy for behavior that is harmful to the student or others (e.g., aggressive behavior, bullying).
WAYS TO DO AN ACTIVE IGNORE
Stay silent. Turn your eyes away. Play with something else. Keep your facial expression blank.
Examples of Planned Ignoring:
When the teacher ignores his antics he soon sits down and begins working. The teacher provides praise as soon as he begins his work. Jimmy shouts out in class when answering and asking questions. The teacher ignores his calling out behavior and only calls on him when he raises his hand.
For instance, if a child is speaking in a rude or inappropriate tone in the home, a parent could ignore this effort to gain the parent's attention and instead the parent could respond to another child who is speaking more calmly and respectfully.
Planned ignoring, or extinction, is not paying attention to a problem behavior in order to decrease the behavior in the future. Your behavior support provider will teach you how to use planned ignoring. When you start to use planned ignoring to end a behavior, you need to keep doing it.
Withholding reinforcement when using differential reinforcement essentially means ignoring inappropriate behavior. In most cases, this means not making eye contact, remaining silent, and moving away.
In new/modern Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), therapists may utilize a technique called "planned ignoring" to reduce undesirable or problematic behaviors. These therapists may also recommend that parents adopt this technique at home for consistent treatment of these unwanted behaviors.
Ignoring works well when used with positive attention for behaviors you'd like to see more often. This means that you ignore the behavior you want to stop and when you see your child doing something you like, you praise it immediately. Be prepared for the behavior to get worse when you first start ignoring it.
"The big difference is that you are ignoring a certain behaviour, rather than ignoring the child, and ignoring the behaviour not to punish the child but to avoid rewarding that behaviour by giving it attention," she adds. Quail says that planned ignoring should be used with care.
Ignoring someone can be tough, especially if you can't stop running into the person you're trying to avoid, or if that person keeps trying to talk to you and doesn't get the memo. But if you really want to ignore someone, you just have to look busy, change your routine, and cut off all contact with that person.
If you ignore someone or something, you pay no attention to them.
Some of these immature, irritating, or thoughtless behaviors or “classroom incivilities” include: lateness or leaving early. inappropriate cellphone and laptop usage in class. side conversations. disregard for deadlines.
Other Examples
Use of threatening or intimidating behavior or words. Using obscenities, profanity or pejorative (e.g., racially/culturally-derived/gender-based) terms or names directed at or in the presence of a student. Unwarranted exclusion from reasonable learning opportunities.
Planned ignoring typically targets low-level (e.g., minor) problem behaviors that primarily occur because the student seeks to gain attention; these behaviors do not significantly distract other students or otherwise interfere with classroom routines.
All healthy people engage in some forms of escape and avoidance behaviors. Consider wearing a seatbelt to avoid injury, wearing sunglasses to escape the glare of the sun, or wiping our nose with a tissue to end the unpleasant effects of a runny nose.
Avoidance-avoidance conflict is when a person has difficulty choosing between two unfavorable options. Examples of this include choosing between surgery or radiation treatments for cancer, or choosing between a lower salary at work or unemployment.
This is avoidance learning- the mouse has learned how to avoid the unpleasant stimulus. A human example would be a person who gets an allergic reaction from eating a certain food a few times. Eventually they learn to avoid that food and not eat it at all. This is avoidance learning.
any act or series of actions that enables an individual to avoid or anticipate unpleasant or painful situations, stimuli, or events, including conditioned aversive stimuli. See avoidance conditioning. Compare escape behavior.
On the other hand, terms like “anxiety” and “frustration” are not considered behavior as these concepts must be broken down into observable and measurable behaviors.
Planned ignoring works on the assumption that the purpose of the child's behavior is to get attention. Therefore if we don't pay attention, they'll decide it doesn't work and will choose a different way to get attention in the future.
Examples of Negative Reinforcement
Giving a pass to the car behind to avoid its honking. Getting up from the bed to avoid the noisy alarm. Taking an antacid before having a spicy meal. Applying sunscreen before heading to the beach to avoid getting sunburned.
Deciding to take an antacid before you indulge in a spicy meal is an example of negative reinforcement. You engage in an action in order to avoid a negative result. One of the best ways to remember negative reinforcement is to think of it as something being subtracted from the situation.