ArticleJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior2020
Resurgence as Choice in Context: Treatment duration and on/off alternative reinforcement.
Article in Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05790668 (Motivational Refinements for Facilitating Reinforcement Schedule Thinning), which is not on this map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Motivational Refinements for Facilitating Reinforcement Schedule Thinning
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- On the prevalence and magnitude of resurgence during delay-and-denial tolerance teaching.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2025Pooled it
- Human-operant evaluation of synthesized alternative reinforcement and resurgence.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- Shaping the extinction burst: Increasing its probability and preventing its emergence across topographies.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- Alternative-reinforcer magnitude effects on resurgence across successive relapse tests in mice.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- The effects of discriminative stimuli on combined relapse: A preliminary human-operant investigation.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- On the Prospective Application of Behavioral Momentum Theory and Resurgence as Choice in the Treatment of Problem Behavior: A Brief Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The extinction burst: Effects of reinforcement magnitude.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- Resurgence mitigation across extended extinction following four and eight cycles of on/off alternative reinforcement.Behavioural processes · 2024Article
- Resurgence of destructive behavior following decreases in alternative reinforcement: A prospective analysis.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2024Article
- Resurgence and Behavioral Contrast, Compared and Contrasted.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Article
- Abstinence as Choice: Exploring Voluntary Abstinence from Alcohol Self-Administration Using the Resurgence-as-Choice Framework.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Article
- Resurgence Following Higher or Lower Quality Alternative Reinforcement.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning following Functional Communication Training.Behavior analysis in practice · 2024Review
- Translational evaluation of on/off alternative reinforcement cycling.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2023Article
- Examining resurgence in rats following expanded-operant treatments.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2023Article
- Further evaluation of prompt density, rate of reinforcement, and the persistence of manding.Behavioral interventions : theory & practice in residential & community-based clinical programs · 2023Article
- Modeling Behavioral Persistence with Resurgence as Choice in Context (RaCBehavior analysis in practice · 2023Article
- Relapse and its mitigation: Toward behavioral inoculation.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2023Review
- A Comprehensive Systematic Review of Procedures and Analyses Used in Basic and Preclinical Studies of Resurgence, 1970-2020.Perspectives on behavior science · 2023Review
- Basic and applied research on extinction bursts.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2023Article
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Abstract
Resurgence as Choice (RaC) is a quantitative theory suggesting that an increase in an extinguished target behavior with subsequent extinction of an alternative behavior (i.e., resurgence) is governed by the same processes as choice more generally. We present data from an experiment with rats examining a range of treatment durations with alternative reinforcement plus extinction and demonstrate that increases in treatment duration produce small but reliable decreases in resurgence. Although RaC predicted the relation between target responding and treatment duration, the model failed in other respects. First, contrary to predictions, the present experiment also replicated previous findings that exposure to cycling on/off alternative reinforcement reduces resurgence. Second, RaC did a poor job simultaneously accounting for target and alternative behaviors across conditions. We present a revised model incorporating a role for more local signaling effects of reinforcer deliveries or their absence on response allocation. Such signaling effects are suggested to impact response allocation above and beyond the values of the target and alternative behaviors as longer-term repositories of experience. The new model provides an excellent account of the data and can be viewed as an integration of RaC and a quantitative approximation of some aspects of Context Theory.
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