ReviewJournal of applied behavior analysis2003
Dynamic changes in reinforcer effectiveness: theoretical, methodological, and practical implications for applied research.
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- Using Fidget Spinners to Improve On-Task Classroom Behavior for Students With ADHD.Behavior analysis in practice · 2022Article
- Flexible auditory training, psychophysics, and enrichment of common marmosets with an automated, touchscreen-based system.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Group-based, autonomous, individualized training and testing of long-tailed macaques (Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Healthy Eating: Approaching the Selection, Preparation, and Consumption of Healthy Food as Choice Behavior.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- Incentive motivation in pet dogs - preference for constant vs varied food rewards.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Renewed behavior produced by context change and its implications for treatment maintenance: A review.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2017Review
- Understanding Operant Behavior: Still Experimental Analysis of the Three-Term Contingency.The Behavior analyst · 2017Article
- White coat adherence over the first year of therapy in pediatric epilepsy.The Journal of pediatrics · 2012Article
- Effects of preference and reinforcer variation on within-session patterns of responding.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2012Article
- The cardiovascular and endocrine responses to voluntary and forced diving in trained and untrained rats.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2010Article
- Beyond values clarification: addressing client values in clinical behavior analysis.The Behavior analyst · 2009Article
- Influencing preschoolers' free-play activity preferences: an evaluation of satiation and embedded reinforcement.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2009Article
- Contributions of matrix metalloproteinases to neural plasticity, habituation, associative learning and drug addiction.Neural plasticity · 2009Review
- Further evaluation of methods to identify matched stimulation.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2007Article
- The effects of deprivation, presession exposure, and preferences on teaching manding to children with autism.The Analysis of verbal behavior · 2005Article
- Motivational influences on performance maintained by food reinforcement.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2005Article
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Abstract
Reinforcers lose their effectiveness when they are presented repeatedly. Traditionally, this loss of effectiveness has been labeled satiation. However, recent evidence suggests that habituation provides a more accurate and useful description. The characteristics of behavior undergoing satiation differ for different stimuli (e.g., food, water), and these characteristics have not been identified for the noningestive reinforcers often used by applied behavior analysts (e.g., praise, attention). As a result, the term satiation provides little guidance for either maintaining or reducing the effectiveness of reinforcers. In contrast, the characteristics of behavior undergoing habituation are well known and are relatively general across species and stimuli. These characteristics provide specific and novel guidance about how to maintain or reduce the effectiveness of a reinforcer. In addition, habituation may lead to a better understanding of several puzzling phenomena in the conditioning literature (e.g., extinction, behavioral contrast), and it may provide a more precise and accurate description of the dynamics of many different types of behavior.
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