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THE EFFECTS OF CONTINGENT AND NONCONTINGENT ATTENTION ON SELF‐INJURY AND SELF‐RESTRAINT
Author(s) -
Derby K. Mark,
Fisher Wayne W.,
Piazza Cathleen C.
Publication year - 1996
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.1996.29-107
Subject(s) - psychology , reinforcement , contingency , contingency management , self destructive behavior , functional analysis , developmental psychology , self control , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , poison control , injury prevention , social psychology , intervention (counseling) , psychiatry , medicine , medical emergency , linguistics , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Self‐restraint and self‐injurious behavior (SIB) are two responses that can sometimes be members of the same functional response class (i.e., maintained by the same contingency). In such cases, a single treatment should be effective for both responses. In this investigation, we examined the effects of providing attention (the presumed reinforcer) both noncontingently and contingent upon either SIB or self‐restraint. Results were consistent with our hypothesis that both responses were maintained by attention and suggested that noncontingent reinforcement was a potentially effective treatment.