Journal article
VISUAL, AUDITORY, AND VIBRATORY STIMULATION AS REINFORCERS FOR PROFOUNDLY RETARDED CHILDREN
Rehabilitation psychology, Vol.26(4), pp.201-209
1979
DOI: 10.1037/h0090947
Abstract
Response-contingent visual, auditory and vibratory stimulations, programmed on separate manipulanda, were made available to four institutionalized, profoundly retarded, multi-handicapped children. When lever pressing was consequated with four seconds of one sensory stimulation, in any order selected by the child, each child showed a marked rise in responding. The results showed that sensory stimulation is a reinforcer for these children, and that they are not "helpless vegetables." When provided with the appropriate manipulanda and the opportunity, they responded positively and differentially to three different kinds of stimuli.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- VISUAL, AUDITORY, AND VIBRATORY STIMULATION AS REINFORCERS FOR PROFOUNDLY RETARDED CHILDREN
- Creators
- Mary Jane Fehr - Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287John Trezise - Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287Randy Lennon - Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287Lee Meyerson - Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287David Wacker - University of Iowa Howpital School, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Rehabilitation psychology, Vol.26(4), pp.201-209
- Publisher
- Division 22 of the American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/h0090947
- ISSN
- 0090-5550
- eISSN
- 1939-1544
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1979
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- Record Identifier
- 9983993327602771
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