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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"automatic reinforcement"”.
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Using Self-management to Reduce Automatically Maintained Problem Behavior in Children with Autism
… due to the non-socially mediated nature of reinforcement available to them. Self-management techniques, including self-monitoring and self-reinforcement, have proven effective in modifying a variety of behaviors in children with autism, including stereotypic behaviors (Koegel & Koegel, 1990; …
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An exploratory study of deliberate self-harm in a South African student population
… on the FASM were conceptualised in light of the reinforcement mechanisms of social learning theory. PCA revealed a four-factor model for the reasons students engaged in DSH, constituent of the following components: social positive reinforcement, social negative reinforcement, automatic …
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The Effects of Pre-session Access to Competing Stimuli on Motor Stereotypy
… inclusion. Stereotypy is often maintained by automatic reinforcement (occurring in the absence of social consequences) due to the ‘self-stimulatory’ or sensory consequences produced by the behavior itself. The purpose of this study was to examine the subsequent effects of pre-session access to …
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Functional Analysis of Motor and Vocal Stereotypy: It's Not Always Automatic
… social variables to determine their influence on automatically reinforced, stereotypical behaviors. Three experiments were designed to determine the effect of diverse demands, tangibles, and forms of attention on motor and/or vocal stereotypy for seven children diagnosed with autism. Results …
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Suppressive effects of a stimulus correlated with reprimands for automatically-maintained eye poking.
A functional analysis, conducted to assess the variables maintaining the chronic eye poking of a female diagnosed with profound mental retardation, indicated that the behavior persisted in the absence of social contingencies. A procedure was initiated in a training environment in which a punisher …