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Prevalence of resurgence during thinning of multiple schedules of reinforcement following functional communication training
Author(s) -
Muething Colin,
Pavlov Alexis,
Call Nathan,
Ringdahl Joel,
Gillespie Scott
Publication year - 2020
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.791
Subject(s) - thinning , reinforcement , psychology , training (meteorology) , session (web analytics) , audiology , developmental psychology , medicine , social psychology , computer science , biology , ecology , physics , meteorology , world wide web
The current study examined resurgence of problem behavior during thinning of multiple schedules of reinforcement following functional communication training replicating previous research (Briggs et al., 2018). Data were analyzed at each thinning step from subjects enrolled in an intensive day treatment program over a 5‐year period. Results indicated that of the 239 thinning steps analyzed, resurgence was observed in 97 of those steps (40.6%), similar to results of Briggs et al. (2018). The data were also analyzed to estimate the magnitude of resurgence when it was observed. In the first session after the thinning step, the rate of problem behavior observed was 7 times higher than the average of the 5 sessions pre‐thinning step.