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AN ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE MISPLACED PARENTAL SOCIAL CONTINGENCIES 1
Author(s) -
Budd Karen S.,
Green Donald R.,
Baer Donald M.
Publication year - 1976
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.1976.9-459
Subject(s) - timeout , psychology , multiple baseline design , developmental psychology , generalization , parent training , daughter , reinforcement , behavior change , social psychology , psychiatry , statistics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , evolutionary biology , biology , intervention (counseling)
This study analyzed the training of a mother to modify five subclasses of her attention to her young child's noncompliance with instructions, and also displayed the changes in her child's behavior correlated with these events. Training in four subclasses consisted of teaching the mother to withhold various forms of social attention to her daughter's undesired behavior; training in the fifth subclass involved introduction of a brief room‐timeout procedure for noncompliance. The effectiveness of the parent‐training procedure, consisting of initial instructions and daily feedback, was demonstrated through a multiple‐baseline design across the five subclasses of parent behavior. Sequential decreases in the first three subclasses of the mother's social attention to undesired child behavior resulted in incomplete improvements in some child responses; however, a decrease in the fourth subclass resulted in a significant increase in undesired child behavior. Complete remediation of all child behaviors was achieved following the training of a timeout procedure for noncompliance. Postchecks conducted up to 16 weeks later showed that these effects were durable.