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Reinforcement magnitude and responding during treatment with differential reinforcement.

Basic findings indicate that the amount or magnitude of reinforcement can influence free-operant responding prior to and during extinction. In this study, the relation between reinforcement magnitude and adaptive behavior was evaluated with 3 children as ...
Dorothea C Lerman, Michael E Kelley, Christina M Vorndran, Stephanie A C Kuhn, Robert H LaRue (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002SPRING)
reinforcement-magnitude-responding-treatment-differential.asp

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The effects of competing reinforcement schedules on the acquisition of functional communication.

The initial efficacy of functional communication training (FCT) was evaluated when problem behavior continued to produce intermittent reinforcement. Results for 2 of 3 participants showed that FCT was most effective when problem behavior was also exposed ...
Michael E Kelley, Dorothea C Lerman, Carole M Van Camp (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002SPRING)
effects-competing-reinforcement-schedules-acquisition-functional.asp

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An application of the matching law to severe problem behavior.

We evaluated problem behavior and appropriate behavior using the matching equation with 4 individuals with developmental disabilities. Descriptive observations were conducted during interactions between the participants and their primary care providers ...
John C Borrero, Timothy R Vollmer (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002SPRING)
application-matching-law-severe-problem-behavior.asp

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Functional assessment and noncontingent reinforcement in the treatment of disruptive vocalization in elderly dementia patients.

Noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) was used as an intervention with 2 elderly dementia patients who engaged in disruptive vocalization. Several assessment procedures, including functional analysis, were conducted to identify reinforcing stimuli for use in ...
Jeffrey A Buchanan, Jane E Fisher (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002SPRING)
functional-assessment-noncontingent-reinforcement-treatment.asp

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Evaluation of a treatment package to reduce rapid eating.

We replicated and extended treatment procedures described by Lennox, Miltenberger, and Donnelly (1987) designed to reduce rapid eating. The participant was a 17-year-old girl with developmental disabilities who engaged in dangerously high rates of food ...
Carrie S Wright, Timothy R Vollmer (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002SPRING)
evaluation-treatment-package-reduce-rapid-eating.asp

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Operant variability: evidence, functions, and theory.

Although responses are sometimes easy to predict, at other times responding seems highly variable, unpredictable, or even random. The inability to predict is generally attributed to ignorance of controlling variables, but this article is a review of ...
Allen Neuringer (Psychon Bull Rev, 200212)
operant-variability-evidence-functions-theory.asp

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Social and neural determinants of aggressive behavior: pharmacotherapeutic targets at serotonin, dopamine and gamma-aminobutyric acid systems.

BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE: Aggressive outbursts that result in harm and injury present a major problem for the public health and criminal justice systems, but there are no adequate treatment options. Obstacles at the level of social policy, institutional ...
Klaus A Miczek, Eric W Fish, Joseph F De Bold, Rosa M M De Almeida (Psychopharmacology (Berl), 200210)
social-neural-determinants-aggressive-behavior-pharmacotherapeutic.asp

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Human hippocampal activation in the delayed matching- and nonmatching-to-sample memory tasks: an event-related functional MRI approach.

The delayed matching-to-sample (DMS) and delayed nonmatching-to-sample (DNMS) memory tasks are standard tools used to probe visual recognition memory in human and nonhuman primates. Previous research indicates that structures within the medial temporal ...
Christopher S Monk, Jiancheng Zhuang, W John Curtis, Iris-Tatjana Ofenloch, Nim Tottenham, Charles A Nelson, Xiaoping Hu (Behav Neurosci, 200208)
human-hippocampal-activation-delayed-matching-nonmatching-sample.asp

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Human group choice: discrete-trial and free-operant tests of the ideal free distribution.

Ideal free distribution theory predicts that foragers will form groups proportional in number to the resources available in alternative resource sites or patches, a phenomenon termed habitat matching. Three experiments tested this prediction with college ...
Gregory J Madden, Blaine F Peden, Tetsuo Yamaguchi (J Exp Anal Behav, 200207)
human-group-choice-discrete-trial-free-operant-tests-ideal-free.asp

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Promoting functional activity engagement at appropriate times with people with multiple disabilities.

This study was aimed at teaching three persons with multiple disabilities to carry out functional activities at appropriate times independently. To this end, an electronic time system that produced vibratory alarms at preset times and a board with ...
G E Lancioni, M F OReilly, F Campodonico, D Oliva, J Groeneweg (Percept Mot Skills, 200206)
promoting-functional-activity-engagement-appropriate-times-people.asp