Journal article
An evaluation of the interaction between quality of attention and negative reinforcement with children who display escape-maintained problem behavior
Journal of applied behavior analysis, Vol.42(2), pp.343-348
2009
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2009.42-343
PMCID: PMC2695338
PMID: 19949522
Abstract
The choice-making behavior of 2 typically developing children who engaged in problem behavior maintained by negative reinforcement was evaluated within a concurrent-operants assessment that varied the quality of attention across free-play and demand conditions. The results demonstrated that it was possible to bias responding towards academic demands for both participants by providing high-quality attention, despite the continuous availability of negative reinforcement. The current study extended brief clinical methods with typically developing children and demonstrated how different qualities of attention provided across concurrent schedules could bias responding.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- An evaluation of the interaction between quality of attention and negative reinforcement with children who display escape-maintained problem behavior
- Creators
- Andrew W Gardner - The University of Iowa, USA. Andrew.Gardner@nau.eduDavid P WackerEric W Boelter
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of applied behavior analysis, Vol.42(2), pp.343-348
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1901/jaba.2009.42-343
- PMID
- 19949522
- PMCID
- PMC2695338
- ISSN
- 0021-8855
- eISSN
- 1938-3703
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2009
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9983993338202771
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