An effectiveness trial of contingency management in a felony preadjudication drug court.

abstract：:Experimental evaluations of behavioral staff management procedures usually have been limited to relatively small-scale demonstration studies. We evaluated a large-scale, long-term application of a staff management program designed to improve the functional utility of educational services for severely handicapped perso...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Parsons MB,Schepis MM,Reid DH,McCarn JE,Green CW

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discrete-trial instruction (DTI) is a behavioral method of teaching young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) that has received a significant amount of research support. Because of a lack of qualified trainers in many areas of the world, researchers have recently begun to investigate alternative methods of t...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Higbee TS,Aporta AP,Resende A,Nogueira M,Goyos C,Pollard JS

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was a replication and extension of research by Foxx, McMorrow, Bittle, and Ness (1986) that assessed generalization effects of a social skills training program on the interactional behavior of adults with developmental disabilities. Target skills were a verbal action or reaction in six skill areas that spec...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Lalli JS,Pinter-Lalli E,Mace FC,Murphy DM

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated an indirect method of training 45 institutional direct care staff to conduct behavioral programs. Three supervisors were trained to improve teaching behaviors (instructions, prompts, and consequence) used by the direct care staff while working with severely and profoundly handicapped residents. In...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Page TJ,Iwata BA,Reid DH

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of smoking risk is first reviewed and a classification of procedures for assessing smoking behavior is presented. Areas requiring assessment include not only the traditionally measured smoking rate, but also the substance used and topography of consumption. Each of these areas may be assessed through a vari...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Frederiksen LW,Martin JE,Webster JS

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a BAB design, a token system requiring cooperative interaction was used to change the reading and vocabulary performance of an 18-member class of third-grade hyperactive boys. Four different colored tokens, which could be exchanged for 15 minutes of play on electrovideo games, were earned by successful completio...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Robinson PW,Newby TJ,Ganzell SL

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated a discrete-trials, operant tracking and a descending-series procedure for the determination of hearing levels with profoundly retarded individuals. These individuals were previously diagnosed as untestable. Following stimulus-control training with errorless discrimination procedures, hea...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Woolcock JE,Alferink LA

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the current investigation was to identify an appropriate texture for initial treatment of 1 child's feeding problem. Variability in mouth clean (a product measure of swallowing) during a texture assessment suggested that individual pureed foods differentially affected feeding behavior. A single-food ass...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Kadey H,Piazza CC,Rivas KM,Zeleny J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recommendation to reserve the most potent reinforcers for unprompted responses during acquisition programming has little published empirical support for its purported benefits (e.g., rapid acquisition, decreased errors, and decreased prompt dependence). The purpose of the current investigation was to compare the d...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Karsten AM,Carr JE

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preschool life skills (PLS) program (Hanley, Heal, Tiger, & Ingvarsson, 2007; Luczynski & Hanley, 2013) involves teaching social skills as a means of decreasing and preventing problem behavior. However, achieving durable outcomes as children transition across educational settings depend on the generalization and l...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Luczynski KC,Hanley GP,Rodriguez NM

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavior analysts and educators often recommend using praise, particularly descriptive praise, despite mixed empirical findings to support this recommendation. We evaluated the effectiveness of praise as a reinforcer during a reinforcer assessment using known tasks with preschoolers in Experiment 1. Praise functioned ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Senn LP,Bayles MW,Bruzek JL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been little research on the effects of the many procedural variables in applied group contingencies. In the present study, an individualized contingency and three group contingencies with different "responder" criteria (e.g., reward based on the group average, reward based on the work of a designated, low-ac...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Speltz ML,Shimamura JW,McReynolds WT

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obtaining a job as a college graduate is partly dependent on interview performance. We used a multiple baseline design across skills to evaluate the effects of behavioral skills training with self-evaluation for five college students. Training effects were evaluated using simulated interviews as baseline and posttrain...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Stocco CS,Thompson RH,Hart JM,Soriano HL

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two adults with mental retardation demonstrated the recombination of within-syllable units (onsets and rimes) using a spoken-to-printed-word matching-to-sample (MTS) procedure. Further testing with 1 participant showed comprehension of the printed words. Printed-word naming was minimal before, but greater after, compr...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Saunders KJ,O'Donnell J,Vaidya M,Williams DC

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulus control technology was applied to the instruction of fraction ratio (e.g., (1/5)) and decimal (e.g., 0.20) relations, with 7 students who demonstrated difficulty in fraction and decimal tasks. The students were trained to match pictorial representations of fractions (B comparison stimuli) to printed counterpa...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Lynch DC,Cuvo AJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the influence of derived rules on roulette betting. Twelve college students selected between red and black bets on a roulette wheel in a pretest, then participated in a relational training procedure that established functions of more than for the color bet least often and less than for the color bet more f...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Whiting SW,Dixon MR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a sequential approach to evaluate the relative and combined effects of different types of behavioral treatments, as well as dosage of methylphenidate (MPH), on the disruptive behavior of 3 students who had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Results showed that individualized behavior...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Gulley V,Northup J,Hupp S,Spera S,LeVelle J,Ridgway A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The good behavior game (GBG) is a classwide group contingency that involves dividing the class into two teams, creating simple rules, and arranging contingencies for breaking or following those rules. Five kindergarten teachers and classrooms participated in this evaluation of the GBG. Disruptive behavior markedly dec...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Donaldson JM,Vollmer TR,Krous T,Downs S,Berard KP

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:We conducted a stimulus preference assessment to identify preference for praise delivered in English versus Spanish for bilingual students. Next, a concurrent-operant reinforcer assessment was used to evaluate the reinforcer efficacy of praise in each language. Participants showed limited to no preference for one lang...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Clay CJ,Bloom SE,Slocum TA,Samaha AL,Callard CH

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:An alternating treatment comparison was conducted of the relative effectiveness of oral and total communication training models for teaching expressive labeling skills to three echolalic autistic children. The results of this comparison demonstrated that total communication proved to be the most successful approach wi...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Barrera RD,Sulzer-Azaroff B

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the efficacy of tact-to-intraverbal (i.e., using picture prompts) and echoic-to-intraverbal transfer-of-stimulus-control procedures to establish intraverbal responding in 3 boys (4 years old) with autism. For all 3 participants, the picture prompts resulted in fewer trials to criterion, but both prompting ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Ingvarsson ET,Hollobaugh T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its advantages, discrete-trial instruction (DTI) has been criticized for producing rote responding. Although there is little research supporting this claim, if true, this may be problematic given the propensity of children with autism to engage in restricted and repetitive behavior. One feature that is common ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Peterson SP,Rodriguez NM,Pawich TL

更新日期：2019-05-01 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 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：:Many early intervention curricular manuals recommend teaching auditory-visual conditional discriminations (i.e., receptive labeling) using the simple-conditional method in which component simple discriminations are taught in isolation and in the presence of a distracter stimulus before the learner is required to respo...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Grow LL,Carr JE,Kodak TM,Jostad CM,Kisamore AN

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 12 children were enrolled in a preschool class. During the first experimental stage they participated in special events contingent on token earning. Tokens were acquired by engaging in a variety of study behaviors. After a level of study behavior was established under this contingency, the special events we...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Bushell D,Wrobel PA,Michaelis ML

更新日期：1968-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the extent to which variations in session duration affected the outcomes of functional analyses. Forty-six individuals, all diagnosed with mental retardation and referred for assessment and treatment of self-injurious or aggressive behavior, participated in functional analyses, consisting of repeated expos...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Wallace MD,Iwata BA

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a sequence of three single-digit (1 digit x 1 digit) multiplication problems on the latency to initiate multiple-digit (3 digit x 3 digit) multiplication problems for 2 students in an alternative education school. Data showed that (a) during the preference assess...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Belfiore PJ,Lee DL,Vargas AU,Skinner CH

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00