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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"reinforcement contingency"”.
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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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The Effects of Sign Language on the Vocal Responses of a Child with Autism.
… boy with autism. Results indicate that a reinforcement contingency placed only on sign responses is inadequate for maintaining vocal responses. When a reinforcement contingency is placed on sign responses as well as vocal responses that the user is capable of emitting in verbal imitation, …
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Do Shared S-minus Functions Among Stimuli Lead to Equivalence?
… classes contain all positive elements in a reinforcement contingency by asking whether negative stimuli in a reinforcement contingency will also form an equivalence class, based on their shared function as S-minus stimuli. In Experiment 1, 5 subjects were tested for equivalence for positive …
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Teaching Conversational Interactions to Children with Autism
… "continuations" in combination with a social reinforcement contingency to increase the referential interactions of two young children with ASD. An alternating treatments design across behaviors was used with initial baseline sessions to assess the effects of CS and CL training. Results …
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The Use of Operant Conditioning in Stroke Patients to Facilitate Relearning Dressing Skills
… and physical difficulties to determine if reinforcement contingency programs shorten hospitalization; (2) Study a larger group of patients of varying lengths of time post-infarct to determine optimum time for reinforcement programs; (3) An objective appraisal of two individuals at the …
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The Effect of a Class-based Point System on Correspondence Between Planned and Actual Study Time for College Freshmen
… correspondence was not maintained when the point contingency was removed. Students who planned to attend and attended the study laboratory frequently during baseline showed increased correspondence between both days planned and attended (yes-no correspondence) and amount of time planned and …
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The Effects of Shaping and Instruction-based Procedures on Behavioral Variability during Acquisition and Extinction
… 4 response patterns on a continuous schedule of reinforcement. A 30-min extinction condition followed acquisition. One group of subjects learned the first response through a series of shaping steps designed to reduce acquisition variability. Another group of subjects was instructed in the correct …