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The Impact of Relational Training of Preferred Food and Non-Preferred Food to Arbitrary Symbols on Implicit Relational Tasks
(2015-05)The Mixed-Trial Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (MT-IRAP) is a tool for measuring implicit behavior (i.e., biases or beliefs the individual is unaware of or intends to conceal from the public) among individuals. ... -
Generalization across Modalities of Expressive and Receptive Language Acquisition through the Use of Multiple Exemplar Training and Errorless Teaching
(2016-06)Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to display deficits with language acquisition and generalization of language skills after acquisition. Discrete trial teaching (DTT) includes general procedures used to ... -
Behavioral Economic Analyses of Reinforcement in the Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior
(2016-07)Evidence-based advances in the field of Behavior Analysis have begun to demonstrate ways in which behavioral-economic methods may provide a coherent understanding of responding and consumption of reinforcers. This ... -
A Further Analysis of Commission Errors during Discrete Trial Training
(2016-12)Treatment integrity has been manipulated in various ways to evaluate its impact on intervention effectiveness. Studies have compared different types of integrity failures and levels of treatment integrity in various ... -
Evaluating Computerized Math Performance Using Progressive Ratio Schedules in Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(2016-12)One method of assessing reinforcer strength is to use a progressive ratio (PR) schedule of reinforcement, whereby response requirements to access reinforcers gradually increase. PR schedules have been used to assess reinforcer ... -
The Use of the Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services to Assess and Improve the Job Performance of Individuals with Disabilities
(2016-12)Employers often do not have the means to identify the specific variables that influence poor work performance, particularly for employees with disabilities. The Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services (PDC-HS) ... -
Using Auditory Extinction Cues to Mitigate Resurgence
(2017-04)Resurgence is a laboratory model of treatment relapse revealing the effects of treatment-integrity errors on problem behavior eliminated through treatment with differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA). ... -
A Comparison of Simultaneous and Delayed Conditioning of Visual Stimuli in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2017-06)Individuals with autism spectrum disorder and related disabilities often do not respond to social reinforcers, such as praise, in a manner that is consistent with typically developing peers. Conditioning procedures are ... -
A Comparison Between Online and In-vivo Parent Training on Parental Acquisition of Skills to Promote Appropriate Behaviors in Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2017-07)Individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often receive Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) to acquire skills to live as independently as possible. However, skills learned through EIBI often ... -
Assessing the Combined Effects of Resurgence and Renewal
(2017-07)Resurgence and renewal are laboratory models of treatment relapse revealing the effects of treatment integrity errors and context change on problem behavior eliminated through treatment with differential reinforcement ... -
The Effects of Feedback Accuracy on Rumor and Performance during an Analogue Task
(2017-07)Feedback is the most commonly used intervention in Organizational Behavior Management (OBM). Recent OBM research has examined both the effects of inaccurate feedback (FB) on performance as well as rumors created due to ... -
Effects of Rich and Lean Treatment Contexts on Renewal
(2017-07)Relapse of problem behavior following behavioral intervention can occur for many reasons, including a change in setting after treatment. Reappearance of a previously extinguished behavior due to a context change is termed ... -
The Effect of Safety Coaching on the Accuracy of Safety Observations and Feedback
(2017-07)Behavior-based safety (BBS) is an effective approach to decreasing workplace incidents and injuries. BBS typically consists of a peer observation and data collection process, and a feedback process. Accurate observations ... -
Feedback and Effort: A Translational Study
(2017-07)The purpose of the present study was to evaluate an arrangement to establish feedback as more preferred when delivered after higher effort responding rather than lower effort responding. The study took place in the ... -
Using Discrimination Training to Establish Conditioned Reinforcers: A Replication and Test of Maintenance
(2017-07)A stimulus becomes a conditioned reinforcer when it acquires reinforcing properties by virtue of being paired with a primary reinforcer. Researchers have evaluated different methods to condition reinforcers for children ... -
An Analysis of the Role of Reactivity in the Observer Effect
(2017-07)Peer observations, which consist of employees observing and scoring their coworkers’ performance of some targeted behavior(s), are often an important component of behavioral safety interventions. Research on peer ... -
The Effects of Various Instruction Ratios During the Use of the High Probability Instructional Sequence to Increase Compliance
(2017-07)Noncompliance is a common behavior problem exhibited by individuals who are typically developing as well as individuals with intellectual disabilities. The high probability sequence, an antecedent intervention, has proven ... -
Training Personal Information to Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2017-12)For many children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, learning emergency information such as their parents’ names, contact information, or important health information may be useful in case of elopement, getting ... -
Evaluation of a Tool to Identify the Variables responsible for Poor Parent Treatment Implementation: The Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Parent
(2017-12)In applied behavior analysis, parents are often taught to implement treatment programs in order to decrease their child’s problem behaviors and increase appropriate behaviors. Unfortunately, many parents have trouble ... -
Using ClassDojo® to Enhance School Age Students' Prosocial Behavior in a Classroom Setting
(2017-12)Previous literature supports the use of a variety of classroom behavioral management programs to increase prosocial behaviors and decrease problem behaviors. For example, token economies, placement of classroom rules ...