Evaluation of behavioral skills training to prevent gun play in children.

abstract：:Token economies are one of the most commonly used behavior-analytic interventions. Despite literature supporting the use of tokens as tools for behavior change, little is known about the efficacy of tokens compared to that of the items for which they are exchanged. Results of previous research comparing the reinforcin...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Bonfonte SA,Bourret JC,Lloveras LA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient disruption during dental visits can impede treatment and may result in invasive approaches to care. The current study evaluated the efficacy of graduated exposure with and without extinction to decrease disruption during dental treatment for 4 young men with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Modified functional ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： McConnell KL,Sassi JL,Carr L,Szalwinski J,Courtemanche A,Njie-Jallow F,Cheney WR

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A program was designed to teach coin equivalence to mentally retarded adolescents. Coin equivalence was defined as choosing several different combinations of coins to equal specified target values. A pretest-posttest matched-groups design was employed with an experimental group receiving the monetary training, and a n...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Trace MW,Cuvo AJ,Criswell JL

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the current study was to examine the degree to which instruction based on stimulus equivalence procedures could be used to teach single-subject design methodology to graduate-level professionals through a Web-based course management system known as Blackboard (see http://www.blackboard.com). Specificall...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Walker BD,Rehfeldt RA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual written and verbal performance feedback was examined to determine its influence on the safety with which physically disabled clients were transferred. Two client-transfer techniques were task analyzed and six direct service providers' on-the-job performance was measured weekly. A multiple baseline across se...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Alavosius MP,Sulzer-Azaroff B

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matching-to-sample procedures were used to assess picture representation skills of severely retarded, nonverbal adolescents. Identity matching within the classes of objects and life-size, full-color photos of the objects was first used to assess visual discrimination, a necessary condition for picture representation. ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Dixon LS

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the effects of individually defined small, medium, and large periods of presession access to edible and nonedible reinforcers on response rates during sessions in which responding produced access to identical reinforcers. Any presession access to an edible reinforcer decreased response rates for 1 particip...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Sy JR,Borrero JC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important skill for behavior analysts is creating graphs that clearly convey outcomes and conform to publication conventions. GraphPad Prism is software designed for creating scientific graphs, but no prior research has empirically evaluated training graphing skills using Prism. Two effective training methods are e...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Berkman SJ,Roscoe EM,Bourret JC

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated one method for determining whether response suppression under noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) is a function of satiation or extinction. Three individuals with developmental disabilities who engaged in self-injurious behavior (SIB) or aggression participated. Results of functional analyses indicated that...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Kahng SW,Iwata BA,Thompson RH,Hanley GP

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-restraint and self-injurious behavior (SIB) are two responses that can sometimes be members of the same functional response class (i.e., maintained by the same contingency). In such cases, a single treatment should be effective for both responses. In this investigation, we examined the effects of providing attent...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Derby KM,Fisher WW,Piazza CC

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research indicates that when analyzing graphically presented single-subject data, subjects trained in visual inference appear to attend to large changes between phases regardless of relative variation and do not differentiate among common intervention effect patterns. In this follow-up study, experts in applied...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Furlong MJ,Wampold BE

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reanalyzed published studies that reported functional analyses conducted in the presence and absence of medication. In Analysis 1, we assessed the overall effect of psychotropic medication on problem behavior. Medication had a reductive effect in 29 of the 37 sets of functional analyses reviewed. The magnitude of t...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Cox AD,Virues-Ortega J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral assessment procedures were used to determine the maintaining conditions of self-injury exhibited by 2 children with severe multiple handicaps. For both children, negative reinforcement (escape from grooming activities) was determined to be the maintaining reinforcer for self-injury (hand/arm biting) within ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Steege MW,Wacker DP,Cigrand KC,Berg WK,Novak CG,Reimers TM,Sasso GM,DeRaad A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated problem behavior exhibited by 6 individuals with developmental disabilities using the behavioral economic conceptualization of unit price. Descriptive observations were conducted during interactions between the participants and their primary care providers in a clinical laboratory, the participants' homes...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Borrero JC,Francisco MT,Haberlin AT,Ross NA,Sran SK

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both a small course section and a large course section were taught with methods that involved breaking material down into weekly units that had to be mastered by students as indicated by weekly tests. Attendance at lectures was voluntary and students were not tested on lecture material. In a system in which a student ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Whitehurst GJ

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uncooperative behavior of grade-school children during dental treatment was examined. Forty children enrolled in a government dental program were observed during treatment conditions involving instructions concerning the appropriate behavior required by the dental practitioner, description of the objective procedu...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Stokes TF,Kennedy SH

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects were asked to read a passage orally and then to answer questions about the passage. When praise and pennies were given for correct answers, the percentage of correct answers increased in two sixth-grade subjects whose reading for comprehension was tested to be 2 yr below grade level. The behavior of these sub...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Lahey BB,McNees MP,Brown CC

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generality of the findings reported by DeLeon, Iwata, and Roscoe (1997) was examined by conducting two stimulus-choice preference assessments, the second of which evaluated low-ranked items from the initial assessment. Results for the 2 participants suggested that supplementary assessments of low-ranked items may ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Taravella CC,Lerman DC,Contrucci SA,Roane HS

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial purpose of the present study was to replicate procedures for teaching preschool children to recruit attention at appropriate times by having an experimenter signal the availability and unavailability of attention (i.e., arrange a multiple schedule involving reinforcement and extinction; Tiger & Hanley, 200...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Tiger JH,Hanley GP

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed and empirically evaluated an instructional program to teach self-advocacy skills to eight young adults with mild handicaps. Participants were taught to discriminate whether or not possible violations of legal rights occurred in socially validated scenarios and, if so, to role-play how to redress rights vi...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Sievert AL,Cuvo AJ,Davis PK

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This secondary data analysis examined effects of an abstinence contingency on participation in a therapeutic workplace. Participants exposed to a pay reset after drug use did not differ in overall attendance from participants who were not exposed to a pay reset after drug use; however, they initially worked less after...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Holtyn AF,Silverman K

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although delusional statements in people with intellectual disabilities and traumatic brain injury can be treated using behavioral interventions, none have demonstrated long-term treatment effects. In the current study, a functional analysis demonstrated that delusional statements were maintained by attention. Differe...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Travis R,Sturmey P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of social initiations and satisfaction with interactions in three dyads, each consisting of 1 student with disabilities and 1 nondisabled peer, were assessed under two alternating conditions: Condition 1 assessed the interactions around a set of four trained computer games, and Condition 2 assessed inter...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Breen CG,Haring TG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the effects of tact training on the emergence of categorization and listener behavior using a nonconcurrent multiple baseline design across 2 children with autism. Participants learned to tact the category name of 9 pictures that belonged to 3 different categories. We assessed whether participants accurat...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Miguel CF,Kobari-Wright VV

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the impact of checklist-based training on teaching teams' use of the zone defense schedule. Three teaching teams (lead teacher plus 2 assistant teachers) in an inclusive early childhood program participated. A multiple baseline design across teams was used to determine whether accurate implementation of th...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Casey AM,McWilliam RA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:We evaluated the effects of a response-effort intervention on the occurrence of self-injurious hand mouthing and a competing response (object manipulation) with 4 individuals who had profound developmental disabilities. During Phase 1, results of functional analyses showed that all participants engaged in hi...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Zhou L,Goff GA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When responses function to produce the same reinforcer, a response class exists. Researchers have examined response classes in applied settings; however, the challenges associated with conducting applied research on response class development have recently necessitated the development of an analogue response class mod...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Mendres AE,Borrero JC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of operant reinforcers are dynamic and dependent on a number of variables, such as schedule and effort. There has been sparse research on the generalized conditioned properties of token reinforcement. We evaluated leisure items, edible items, and tokens using a progressive ratio schedule with three chil...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Russell D,Ingvarsson ET,Haggar JL,Jessel J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of choice and no choice of reinforcer on the response rates of 3 children with autism were compared across single-operant and concurrent-schedule procedures. No consistent differences in responding between choice and no-choice components emerged during single-operant phases. During the concurrent-schedule ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Geckeler AS,Libby ME,Graff RB,Ahearn WH

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotypical behavior maintained by automatic reinforcement often does not result in harm but may be undesirable in some situations. In the current investigation, participants were 2 individuals who engaged in nonharmful stereotypical responses shown in an analogue functional analysis to be insensitive to social cont...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Anderson CM,Doughty SS,Doughty AH,Williams DC,Saunders KJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00