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The Effect of Reinforcement Contingencies Indigenous to College Classrooms
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The Relative Efficacy of Comparatively Weak and Strong Reinforcement Contingencies During Self-Evaluation
… effectiveness of comparat1vely weak and strong reinforcement contingencies during self-evaluation training in producing maintenance of room cleaning behavior of youth in a shelter environment was the problem. Procedure. Youth were trained to evaluate their own rooms and to determine the number …
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The Effects of Cognitive Moral Development and Reinforcement Contingencies on Ethical Decision Making
… (CMD) on ethical behavior, moderated by reinforcement contingencies. Past research has failed to examine the full spectrum of reinforcement contingencies: rewarding ethical behavior (RE), punishing unethical behavior (PU), rewarding unethical behavior (RU), and punishing ethical behavior …
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Analysis and Modification of Unprogrammed Reinforcement Contingencies in a Hospital for the Developmentally Disabled
The problem: To design a reliable observation system for monitoring of hospital attendants' on-ward interactions with hospital residents and to increase the rate of positive consequences delivered by the attendants for appropriate resident behaviors. Procedure: An on-ward interaction recording …
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Effects of reinforcement history for following rules on sensitivity to contingencies of reinforcement
… manipulated subjects' experimental history of reinforcement for following rules in order to assess sensitivity to contingency changes. Ten undergraduate students were presented with four training tasks. Half the subjects were presented with instructions that corresponded with the reinforcement …
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A Constructional Canine Aggression Treatment: Using a Negative Reinforcement Shaping Procedure With Dogs in Home and Community Settings.
… study the effects of the differential negative reinforcement of safe, alternative behaviors to aggression using distancing as the reinforcer were evaluated. The results demonstrated that even when the aggression was in evidence throughout most of the dog's lifetime, it responded quickly to …
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The Effect of a Lag Schedule of Reinforcement on Variability in Toy Play in Children with Autism
… of behavior that is altered and learned through reinforcement contingencies (Neuringer, 2002). The lag schedule of reinforcement is one way to establish contingencies in order to increase variability in block formations built by children diagnosed with autism. Napolitano, Smith, Zarcone, Goodkin …
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Evaluating the Effects of an Independent versus Interdependent Reinforcement Contingency on Teachers' Use of Behavior Specific Praise
… study sought to evaluate the effects of two reinforcement contingencies on the use of behavior specific praise in the classroom setting. An alternating treatments design was used to rapidly evaluate the effects of both an independent and interdependent paired contingency to increase frequency …
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Toward a functional approach to goal setting
… and skip responses for math tasks when reinforcement contingencies and numbers of practices were held constant. Five undergraduate students answered math problems on flash cards in 30s timings. Single case design elements were used to evaluate the effects of different types of goals on …
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Effects of Social Reinforcement Versus Tokens on the Spontaneous Speech of Preschoolers
… were conducted on the effects of different reinforcement contingencies on the emission of verbal operants by preschoolers. Six participants, 3 females and 3 males, 3- to 4-years old, were selected to participate in Experiment I. Six participants, 5 females and 1 male, 2- to 4-years-old, were …
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The effects of Naltrexone on severe self-injurious behavior in inpatient adults with developmental disabilities
… opiate antagonist, which internally alters the reinforcement contingencies that maintain self-injurious behavior. One of the factors that contribute to the maintenance of self-injurious behavior is the endorphins that are naturally released when the body experiences pain. These endorphins can …
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DRINKING INDUCED BY SECOND-ORDER FOOD SCHEDULES: MULTIPLE CONTROLLING FACTORS
… drinking can be brought under the control of reinforcement contingencies, but is not, in general, a terminal activity. It may, however, be sensitive to environmental predictability. The behavior pattern commonly described as schedule-induced drinking depends upon presentations either of food …
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Generalization of Social Skills Training on Disruptive Classroom Behavior
… classroom), 2) verbal prompts, and 3) contingent reinforcement for the demonstration of social skills. Appropriate reinforcers were chosen from results on a preference assessment and teacher interviews. Four second-grade male students, referred for excessive disruptive behavior and poor social …
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Mechanics of Stimulus & Response Generalization in Signal Detection & Psychophysics: Adaptation of Static Theory to Dynamic Performance.
… measures are determined by generalization of reinforcement along both stimulus and response dimensions. Historically the majority of research has addressed situations in which the difference among stimuli and resulting consequences of a perceptual decision are static. Consequently, little is …
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Developing the Function Acquisition Speed Test: Using a Functional Research Approach to Build a Novel Implicit Test
… of interest require two different responses. The reinforcement contingencies of the inconsistent act as a behavioural disrupter, and the difference in learning rates between the two blocks is taken to be indicative of the strength of the relation between the test stimuli. Chapter 2 reports on five …