ArticleJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior2020
Resurgence following differential reinforcement of alternative behavior implemented with and without extinction.
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- An improved translational approach to studying persistence-strengthening effects of differential reinforcement of alternative behavior.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- A Family-Centered Care Approach to Behavior-Analytic Assessment and Intervention.Behavior analysis in practice · 2026Article
- The Need to Distinguish between "Lapse" and "Relapse".Perspectives on behavior science · 2025Article
- Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning following Functional Communication Training.Behavior analysis in practice · 2024Review
- Modeling Behavioral Persistence with Resurgence as Choice in Context (RaCBehavior analysis in practice · 2023Article
- 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
- Response-strengthening effects of same- and different-context DRA training: The effects of two disruptors.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2022Article
- Conducting Translational Research in the Context of Patient Care.Perspectives on behavior science · 2022Article
- Translating quantitative theories of behavior into improved clinical treatments for problem behavior.Behavioural processes · 2022Article
- Destructive behavior increases as a function of reductions in alternative reinforcement during schedule thinning: A retrospective quantitative analysis.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2021Article
- Resurgence Following Traditional and Interdependent Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior.Behavioral development bulletin · 2021Article
- Resurgence of destructive behavior following differential rates of alternative reinforcement.Journal of applied behavior analysisArticle
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In the clinic, differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) often involves programming extinction for destructive behavior while reinforcing an alternative form of communication (e.g., a functional communication response); however, implementing extinction can be unsafe or impractical under some circumstances. Quantitative theories of resurgence (i.e., Behavioral Momentum Theory and Resurgence as Choice) predict differences in the efficacy of treatments that do and do not involve extinction of target responding when reinforcement conditions maintaining alternative responding worsen. We tested these predictions by examining resurgence following two DRA conditions in which we equated rates of reinforcement. In DRA without extinction, target and alternative behavior produced reinforcement. In DRA with extinction plus noncontingent reinforcement, only alternative behavior produced reinforcement. We conducted this study in a reverse-translation sequence, first with participants who engaged in destructive behavior (Experiment 1) and then in a laboratory setting with rats (Experiment 2). Across both experiments, we observed proportionally lower levels of target responding during and following the DRA condition that arranged extinction for the target response. However, levels of resurgence were similar following both arrangements.
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