Evaluation of Resistance to Change under Different Disrupter Conditions in Children with Autism and Severe Intellectual Disability

Autor/inn/en	Lionello-DeNolf, Karen M.; Dube, William V.; McIlvane, William J.
Titel	Evaluation of Resistance to Change under Different Disrupter Conditions in Children with Autism and Severe Intellectual Disability
Quelle	In: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 93 (2010) 3, S.369-383 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-5002
Schlagwörter	Behavior Problems; Severe Mental Retardation; Autism; Developmental Disabilities; Reinforcement; Resistance to Change; Children; Food; Behavioral Science Research; Stimuli; Responses; Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Entwicklungsstörung; Positive Verstärkung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Lebensmittel; Anreizsystem
Abstract	Translational research inspired by behavioral momentum theory in the area of developmental disabilities has shown effects in individuals over a range of functioning levels. In the current study, behavioral momentum was assessed in 6 children diagnosed with autism and severe intellectual disability. In a repeated measures design, participants were exposed to relatively rich versus lean reinforcement contingencies in a multiple schedule with food reinforcers. This was followed by exposure to each of four disrupting conditions: prefeeding, presentation of a concurrent alternative stimulus, presentation of a movie, and the presence of a researcher dispensing response-independent reinforcers on a variable-time schedule. Consistently greater resistance to disruption in the component with the richer schedule occurred with the alternative stimulus disrupter but not with the other disrupters. These results suggest parameters that may be more (or less) effective if behavioral momentum inspired techniques are to be exploited in therapeutic environments. (Contains 5 tables and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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