ArticleJournal of applied behavior analysis2007
Teacher report and direct assessment of preferences for identifying reinforcers for young children.
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- Exploring Teachers' Familiarity and Perceptions of Preference Assessments.Behavior analysis in practice · 2026Article
- Evaluating Artificial Intelligence on the Efficacy of Preference Assessments for Preservice Speech-Language Pathologists.Journal of developmental and physical disabilities · 2025Article
- On the Identification and Use of Social versus Nonsocial Reinforcers: A Review of Research Practices.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Review
- A Survey of Why and How Clinicians Change Reinforcers during Teaching Sessions.Behavior analysis in practice · 2024Article
- Applied behavior analysis and the zoo: Forthman and Ogden (1992) thirty years later.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2023Article
- A Food for All Seasons: Stability of Food Preferences in Gorillas across Testing Methods and Seasons.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Use of Repeated Within-Subject Measures to Assess Infants' Preference for Similar Others.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Systematic assessment of food item preference and reinforcer effectiveness: Enhancements in training laboratory-housed rhesus macaques.Behavioural processes · 2018Article
- Learner Preference Between Massed- and Alternating-Trial Sequencing when Teaching Stimulus Relations to Children with Autism.Behavior analysis in practice · 2017Article
- Stability of infants' preference for prosocial others: Implications for research based on single-choice paradigms.PloS one · 2017Article
- Assessing Preferences for Animals in Children with Autism: A New Use for Video-Based Preference Assessment.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2017Review
- Increasing accurate preference assessment implementation through pyramidal training.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2012Article
- Assessing preferences of individuals with developmental disabilities: a survey of current practices.Behavior analysis in practice · 2012Article
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Abstract
Teachers were asked to identify and rank 10 preferred stimuli for 9 toddlers, and a hierarchy of preference for these items was determined via a direct preference assessment. The reinforcing efficacy of the most highly preferred items identified by each method was evaluated concurrently in a reinforcer assessment. The reinforcer assessment showed that all stimuli identified as highly preferred via the direct preference assessment and teacher rankings functioned as reinforcers. The highest ranked stimuli in the direct assessment were more reinforcing than the teachers' top-ranked stimuli for 5 of 9 participants, whereas the teachers' top-ranked stimulus was more reinforcing than the highest ranked stimulus of the direct assessment for only 1 child. A strong positive correlation between rankings generated through the two assessments was identified for only 1 of the 9 participants. Despite poor correspondence between rankings generated through the teacher interview and direct preference assessment, results of the reinforcer assessment suggest that both methods are effective in identifying reinforcers for toddlers.
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