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Assessment and treatment of problem behavior maintained by mand compliance
Author(s) -
Eluri Zina,
Andrade Ivette,
Trevino Noemi,
Mahmoud Enad
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1002/jaba.296
Subject(s) - mand , reinforcement , compliance (psychology) , psychology , token economy , security token , contingency , functional analysis , discriminative model , contingency management , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , autism , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , intervention (counseling) , computer security , linguistics , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
We modified functional analysis procedures to include a condition in which we reinforced problem behavior by complying with a child's mands. After identifying compliance with mands as a reinforcer, we evaluated the efficacy of a token system with a response‐cost contingency and incorporated discriminative stimuli to signal when mands would be reinforced. The token system with response cost effectively reduced problem behavior. Similar procedures may be beneficial when continuous adult compliance is not possible, when adults want to control when they will comply with the child's mands, or to build a child's tolerance for adult‐directed situations.