ArticleJournal of applied behavior analysis2006
The effectiveness of and preschoolers' preferences for variations of multiple-schedule arrangements.
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- Evaluation of multiple schedules with naturally occurring and therapist-arranged discriminative stimuli following functional communication training.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2016Article
- An assessment of the efficiency of and child preference for forward and backward chaining.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2011Article
- Developing stimulus control of the high-rate social-approach responses of an adult with mental retardation: a multiple-schedule evaluation.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2010Article
- Applied implications of reinforcement history effects.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2009Review
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- Progressing toward data intimacy: a review of within-session data analysis.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2008Article
- Developing stimulus control of young children's requests to teachers: classwide applications of multiple schedules.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2008Article
- Determining individual preschoolers' preferences in a group arrangement.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2008Article
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Abstract
Multiple schedules of reinforcement have been used to teach children to recruit attention only when it is available, thereby minimizing disruptive requesting during instructional activities. This procedure involves alternating periods of continuous reinforcement (CRF) with periods of extinction and correlating each period with a distinct and continuous discriminative stimulus. The present study evaluated the effectiveness of and children's preferences for multiple schedules in which (a) two different stimuli, one correlated with reinforcement (S+) and another correlated with extinction (S-), were presented; (b) only an S+ was presented (i.e., no stimulus was correlated with extinction), and (c) neither an S+ nor an S- was presented (i.e., a mixed schedule). S+/S- and S+ arrangements were similarly effective for 7 children, but 3 preferred the S+/S- condition and 4 preferred the S+ condition. Correlational analyses suggested that children who responded more effectively given the S- (discrimination indexes were relatively high) preferred the S+/S- condition, whereas children who responded less effectively given the S- preferred the S+ condition. The implications of these findings for arranging multiple schedules for social responses are discussed.
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