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Environmental enrichment and response cost: Immediate and subsequent effects on stereotypy
Author(s) -
Watkins Nicholas,
Rapp John T.
Publication year - 2014
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.97
Subject(s) - stereotypy , environmental enrichment , psychology , intervention (counseling) , schedule , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , neuroscience , amphetamine , computer science , dopamine , operating system
We assessed the immediate and subsequent effects of environmental enrichment (EE) as a stand‐alone intervention and when EE was combined with response cost (RC) for 5 participants using a 2‐component multiple‐schedule design. Environmental enrichment failed to decrease any participant's immediate engagement in stereotypy; however, the addition of RC decreased the immediate engagement in stereotypy for all participants. After the withdrawal of EE plus RC, stereotypy did not immediately increase for 3 of 5 participants.