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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"reinforcer"”.
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Evaluation of absolute and relative reinforcer value using progressive ratio schedules
… assessment and were evaluated in subsequent reinforcer and progressive ratio assessments using concurrent- and single-operant schedules of presentation in a modified reversal design. Results showed that for two participants, stimuli determined to be low-preferred via a preference assessment …
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Quantifying the Effects of a Constricted Temporal Window in Reinforcer Pathology
… the valuation of more temporally extended reinforcers (e.g., employment, savings, and seatbelt wearing) among smoking drinkers. Together, these studies support a model, reinforcer pathology; wherein the temporal window, which can differ both between individuals and environments, drives …
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Elasticity of Money as a Reinforcer: Assessing Multiple Compositions of Unit Price
… done with non-human subjects and with drugs as reinforcers. This study represents an extension of previous research to assess money as a reinforcer with humans as subjects. The participants in this study solved math problems to earn money at various unit prices. Results indicate that demand of …
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Reassessing the Power of One Reinforcer with an Evaluation of Learning Histories
… has evaluated the impact of a single conditioned reinforcer delivered for a non-target behavior during shaping following a period of time without reinforcement (Hunter & Rosales-Ruiz, 2019). Findings suggested that the non-target behavior consequated with the conditioned reinforcer persisted into …
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Using a Token System to Increase Compliance and Avoid Satiation during Reinforcer Preference Assessments
… are commonly administered to identify potential reinforcers for use in behavioral interventions. This study examined the effectiveness of a token intervention for increasing compliance during paired-stimulus preference assessments. Three male preschool children with hypothesized …
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Testing the Reinforcer Pathology Theory: A New Insight into Novel Targets for Drug Addiction
… innovative treatment opportunities. Based on the Reinforcer Pathology theory, altering the temporal window over which reinforcers are integrated (i.e., measured by delay discounting) would alter drug valuation and consumption. The first investigation—in 2 separate studies— test the Reinforcer …
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Effects of Differential Reinforcer Magnitude for an Alternative Response on the Resurgence of Academic Responding
<p>Several studies have looked at ways to mitigate resurgence of challenging behavior by manipulating dimensions of reinforcement for an alternative behavior. To date, only one study has examined differences in resurgence following different magnitudes of reinforcement for an alternative behavior, …
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Translating reinforcer dimensions and behavioral economic demand to inform incentive delivery in organizational behavior management
… the effects of parametric manipulations of reinforcer dimensions on performance using a behavioral economic demand framework. The first experiment examined the effects of three incentive magnitudes ($0.05, $0.10, and $0.20) on performance assessed with a progressive ratio schedule. Results …
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The Inadequacy of Intracranial Stimulation to the Posterior Hypothalamus to Serve as a Reinforcer for Maze Learning in the Rat
Eighteen, 23 hour food deprived, self-stimulating rats were divided into two groups. One group received 20 ICS pulses as a reward for a correct response in a T-maze while the second group received a food reward. The subjects learned for food over 5 days of 10 massed trials per day, but failed to …
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The use of auditory prompting procedure and specific reinforcer assignments to promote auditory-visual conditional discriminations in persons with intellectual disabilities
Individuals with autism and developmental disabilities may struggle when presented with auditory-visual relations (Carp, Peterson, Arkel, Peturdottir, & Ingvarsson, 2012). Previous studies have suggested that class specific consequences may serve as an additional stimulus class for acquisition of …
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Choice Behaviour: Short- and Long-Term Effects of Reinforcers
… components, each of which could have a different reinforcer ratio in it, were arranged in each session. In the canonical arrangement these components were separated by l0-s blackouts. Across conditions, the reinforcer ratios arranged in components were varied. The overall rate of reinforcement was …
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An Evaluation of Item Preference for Increasing Self-Control in Typically Developing Preschool Children
… choices (i.e., choosing a smaller but immediate reinforcer over a larger but delayed reinforcer). Previous research has shown that in the absence of delay fading, providing access to leisure items and activities during the delay period is effective for increasing self-control (i.e., choosing a …
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The Effects of Differential Autoshaping and Autoshaping on Key Pressing Antecedents in Retarded Individuals
… were sensitive to an adventitious response-reinforcer relation in one participant, while these behaviors were not affected by either stimulus-reinforcer or response-reinforcer relations in the other three participants. Conolusions. Key pressing, differential or non-differential, did not …
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Discounting of Probabilistic Reinforcers by Pigeons
… their preference between a smaller, more likely reinforcer and a larger, but less likely reinforcer. The adjusting-amount procedure allowed for the estimation of the subjective value of the probabilistic reinforcer.</p><p>In Experiment 1, pigeons were presented choices between a smaller, certain …
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Effects of Click + Continuous Food Vs. Click + Intermittent Food on the Maintenance of Dog Behavior.
… be delivered every time the clicker (conditioned reinforcer) is used. However, presenting a conditioned reinforcer without food can weaken the strength of the conditioned reinforcer and also disrupt its discriminative stimulus function. A within subjects reversal design was used with 2 dogs to …
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Comparing Force and Ratio Progressions from the Behavioral Economic Unit Price Equation
… 2, demand curves were obtained by yoking reinforcer-by-reinforcer to the total number of responses (i.e., subcriterion and criterion) per reinforcer delivery from the force progressions for each rat. Some similar patterns of consumption were observed across the force and yoked …
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Maintaining behavior in a child with autism using a previously neutral stimulus, a remote control tactile stimulus, as the consequence
… for establishing neutral stimuli as conditioned reinforcers in human subjects. Conditioned reinforcers, however, can alleviate some of the problems encountered in applied behavior analytic (ABA) therapy for children with autism, such as satiation and suitability of reinforcers for specific …
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Self-Control Choices Using Running Reinforcement
… demonstrate that the use of a wheel-running reinforcer results in a significant self-control choice bias. This suggests that the use of a wheel-running reinforcer can be used alongside food and water reinforcers without having to undergo caloric deprivation. This study demonstrates that the …
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Self-Control Choices Using Running Reinforcement
… demonstrate that the use of a wheel-running reinforcer results in a significant self-control choice bias. This suggests that the use of a wheel-running reinforcer can be used alongside food and water reinforcers without having to undergo caloric deprivation. This study demonstrates that the …
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