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Stimulus preference assessments and the utility of a moderate category
Author(s) -
Ciccone Francis J.,
Graff Richard B.,
Ahearn William H.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
behavioral interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.605
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1099-078X
pISSN - 1072-0847
DOI - 10.1002/bin.207
Subject(s) - psychology , preference , stimulus (psychology) , preference test , cognitive psychology , statistics , mathematics
Recent studies have shown that moderate (Piazza, Fisher, Hagopian, Bowman, & Toole, 1996) and low (Taravella, Lerman, Contrucci, & Roane, 2000) ranked items on stimulus preference assessments may function as reinforcers. Following an initial preference assessment the current study analyzed whether moderate or low preference items were more likely to be ranked as high preference on subsequent preference assessments. Results show that for five of the seven participants additional high preference items were identified from the moderate preference set, while additional high preference items were identified from the low preference set for only one participant. Results are discussed in terms of the need to identify multiple reinforcers and the composition of the stimulus array during preference assessment. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.