ReviewBehavioural processes2017
Quantitative models of persistence and relapse from the perspective of behavioral momentum theory: Fits and misfits.
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- Translating quantitative theories of behavior into improved clinical treatments for problem behavior.Behavioural processes · 2022Article
- Evaluating Extinction, Renewal, and Resurgence of Operant Behavior in Humans with Amazon Mechanical Turk.Learning and motivation · 2021Article
- Effects of dose on acquisition and persistence of a new response for a remifentanil-associated stimulus.Behavioural pharmacology · 2020Article
- Relapse: An introduction.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2020Article
- Resurgence as Choice in Context: Treatment duration and on/off alternative reinforcement.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2020Article
- Mitigating resurgence of destructive behavior using the discriminative stimuli of a multiple schedule.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2020Article
- Resurgence as Choice: Implications for promoting durable behavior change.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2019Review
- Suing for Peace in the War Against Mentalism.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- Baseline reinforcement rate and resurgence of destructive behavior.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2019Article
- On the predictive validity of behavioral momentum theory for mitigating resurgence of problem behavior.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2018Article
- Renewed behavior produced by context change and its implications for treatment maintenance: A review.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2017Review
- Moving Beyond Reinforcement and Response Strength.The Behavior analyst · 2017Article
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Abstract
We review quantitative accounts of behavioral momentum theory (BMT), its application to clinical treatment, and its extension to post-intervention relapse of target behavior. We suggest that its extension can account for relapse using reinstatement and renewal models, but that its application to resurgence is flawed both conceptually and in its failure to account for recent data. We propose that the enhanced persistence of target behavior engendered by alternative reinforcers is limited to their concurrent availability within a distinctive stimulus context. However, a failure to find effects of stimulus-correlated reinforcer rates in a Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer (PIT) paradigm challenges even a straightforward Pavlovian account of alternative reinforcer effects. BMT has been valuable in understanding basic research findings and in guiding clinical applications and accounting for their data, but alternatives are needed that can account more effectively for resurgence while encompassing basic data on resistance to change as well as other forms of relapse.
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