Is Your Child Throwing Tantrums?

Aversives are unpleasant stimuli done to a person or animal in order to change their behavior. The first aversive he used was time out. When andrea would scream, mat would put her in a bedroom, close the door and hold it shut. He would keep track of how long she screamed at him through the door using a chart. Overtime, her tantrums minished. But israel also found the act of holding a door shut on a screaming child to be exhausting and demoralizing for obvious reasons.