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TIMEOUT FROM POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT FOLLOWING PERSISTENT, HIGH‐RATE BEHAVIOR IN RETARDATES
Author(s) -
Pendergrass Virginia E.
Publication year - 1972
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 - 10.1901/jaba.1972.5-85
Subject(s) - timeout , reinforcement , psychology , developmental psychology , isolation (microbiology) , audiology , social psychology , statistics , medicine , mathematics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Brief isolation from a group situation was found to suppress persistent, high‐rate misbehavior in two extremely withdrawn children, even though no positive reinforcement for other behaviors was systematically administered. Changes in a variety of behaviors, including looking, touching, speaking, responding, and other non‐punished misbehaviors, were observed when isolation timeout was administered contingent on only one misbehavior of each child.