Preschool life skills: Recent advancements and future directions.

abstract：:An investigation was conducted to demonstrate the application of a computerized assessment procedure for determining the preferences of persons with severe handicaps. A computer program was designed to interpret subjects' microswitch activations to produce three distinct types of events (visual, auditory, and tactile)...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Dattilo J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major dependent variable was the rate at which first and second-grade students printed or wrote daily copying assignments. Data were also taken on the percentage of letters scored as errors according to a set of scoring criteria. Initially, these data were collected during a baseline condition in which each child ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Hopkins BL,Schutte RC,Garton KL

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effectiveness of an incentive procedure designed to increase the punctuality of six workers who were chronically late to work in a manufacturing company. The six workers in the experiment received a 2.00 pesos ($0.16 U.S.) bonus for every day that they arrived on time. A reversal design was us...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Hermann JA,Montes AI,Domínguez B,Montes F,Hopkins BL

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of an instructional package on public-speaking behaviors was analyzed in two experiments. The instructional package was designed to teach public-speaking trainees to look at the audience, make gestures, and perform a number of speaking behaviors. The results of Experiment I, with a university student servin...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Fawcett SB,Miller LK

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of a self-instructional and feedback package on participants' implementation of a paired-stimulus preference assessment. Specifically, in Experiment 1, we used a multiple baseline design across participants to replicate and extend the results of Graff and Karsten (2012) by evaluating the effect...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Shapiro M,Kazemi E,Pogosjana M,Rios D,Mendoza M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) may result in rates of reinforcement that are impractical for caregivers to implement; therefore, recent research has examined methods for thinning reinforcer delivery during DRA. In this study, reinforcer delivery was thinned during DRA by restricting access to...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Roane HS,Fisher WW,Sgro GM,Falcomata TS,Pabico RR

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiment sought to develop a practical and effective method for teaching the beginning elements of hand-writing in a Head Start program. The method consisted of reinforcing responses to a writing program by giving the children access to a variety of activities normally available in the pre-school classro...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Miller LK,Schneider R

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various statistics have been proposed as standard methods for calculating and reporting interobserver agreement scores. The advantages and disadvantages of each have been discussed in this journal recently but without resolution. A formula is presented that combines separate measures of occurrence and nonoccurrence pe...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Harris FC,Lahey BB

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This discussion article considers applied behavior analysis measurement, assessment, and treatment of sleep and sleep-related problems among infants, children, and youth who are typically developing and have neurodevelopmental disabilities. Measurement has concentrated on designing practitioner-implemented methods and...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Luiselli JK

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of behavioral procedures to modify the food choices of preschoolers during a snack period at school (training setting) and at home (generalization setting). In the first experiment, we evaluated the usefulness of nutrition training and a generalization programming strategy of cueing to improve ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Stark LJ,Collins FL Jr,Osnes PG,Stokes TF

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：: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：:Two experiments were conducted on four units of a residential facility for the multiply-handicapped retarded in an attempt to improve daily care and training services. Experiment I compared the effects of two procedures in maintaining the work performance of attendants, using an A-B design on two units. One procedure ...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Iwata BA,Bailey JS,Brown KM,Foshee TJ,Alpern M

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reinforcement contingencies and social reinforcement are ubiquitous phenomena in applied behavior analysis. This discussion paper is divided into two sections. In the first section, reinforcement contingencies are discussed in terms of the necessary and sufficient conditions for reinforcement effects. Response-stimulu...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Vollmer TR,Hackenberg TD

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topographically similar verbal responses may be functionally independent forms of operant behavior. For example, saying yes or no may have different functions based on the environmental conditions in effect. The present study extends previous research on both the assessment and acquisition of yes and no responses acro...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Shillingsburg MA,Kelley ME,Roane HS,Kisamore A,Brown MR

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A functional analysis indicated that chronic eye poking exhibited by a woman with profound mental retardation persisted in the absence of social contingencies. We initiated a procedure in which a therapist delivered a punisher (mild reprimand) contingent on eye poking in the presence, but not the absence, of a neutral...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： McKenzie SD,Smith RG,Simmons JN,Soderlund MJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic reinforcement procedures were used to increase study behavior in the classrooms of three beginning teachers experiencing problems of classroom control. Classroom study rates were recorded during a baseline period. During subsequent experimental periods, the teachers changed one or more reinforcement conting...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Hall RV,Panyan M,Rabon D,Broden M

更新日期：1968-01-01 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：: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：:Many students struggle with statistical concepts such as interaction. In an experimental group, participants took a paper-and-pencil test and then were given training to establish equivalent classes containing four different statistical interactions. All participants formed the equivalence classes and showed maintenan...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Fields L,Travis R,Roy D,Yadlovker E,de Aguiar-Rocha L,Sturmey P

更新日期：2009-10-01 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 simulation study was conducted to provide a more thorough account of measurement error associated with interval sampling methods. A computer program simulated the application of momentary time sampling, partial-interval recording, and whole-interval recording methods on target events randomly distributed across an o...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Wirth O,Slaven J,Taylor MA

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:We investigated the efficacy of pictorial self-management to teach daily living skills to 3 low-functioning children with autism. Stimulus and response generalization, stimulus control of self-management materials, and maintenance of behavior change were also assessed. Results showed that children with autism could su...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Pierce KL,Schreibman L

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the effects of prompts and incentives on designated drivers in a bar. We defined the dependent variable as the percentage of customers either functioning as or riding with a designated driver. We used an ABCA design to evaluate the effectiveness of prompts and incentives on the dependent va...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Kazbour RR,Bailey JS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has evaluated contrived motivating operations to teach mands for information. However, literature evaluating acquisition of the mand when? is comparatively limited. As an extension of Shillingsburg, Bowen, Valentino, & Pierce (2014), we taught three children with autism to engage in mands for informa...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Landa RK,Hansen B,Alice Shillingsburg M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transitions from one activity to another may evoke problem behavior from individuals with intellectual disabilities. One explanation for the occurrence of problem behavior could be the change in relative densities of reinforcement between the two activities. We conducted a descriptive assessment of problem behavior wi...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Castillo MI,Clark DR,Schaller EA,Donaldson JM,DeLeon IG,Kahng S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A token reinforcement program involving two levels of token value and backup reinforcers to increase journal reshelving behavior in a large university library was experimentally evaluated. Results showed that instructions (in which signs asked users to reshelve journals) had no impact. By contrast, token reinforcement...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Meyers H,Nathan PE,Kopel SA

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of previous research have shown that individuals with intellectual disabilities usually prefer edible items over leisure items. Other research has shown that sensory (leisure) items facilitate response acquisition and maintenance better than edible items do for individuals with autism. The current studies exam...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Fahmie TA,Iwata BA,Jann KE

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the link between inactivity and premature mortality, most adults exercise less than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2008) recommends; thus, interventions to increase exercise are needed. The present study employed an Internet-based intervention to increase walking in 12 sedentary adults over 50...

journal_title：Journal of applied behavior analysis

authors： Kurti AN,Dallery J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00