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SLEEP DEPRIVATION, ALLERGY SYMPTOMS, AND NEGATIVELY REINFORCED PROBLEM BEHAVIOR
Author(s) -
Kennedy Craig H.,
Meyer Kim A.
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.1996.29-133
Subject(s) - psychology , reinforcement , sleep deprivation , developmental psychology , privation , sleep (system call) , allergy , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , cognition , immunology , computer science , operating system
We studied the relation between the presence versus the absence of sleep deprivation or allergy symptoms and the rate and function of problem behavior. Three students whose problem behavior was negatively reinforced by escape from instruction were studied across several weeks using analogue functional analyses. Our results indicated that the extraexperimental events were associated with (a) termination of instruction functioning as a negative reinforcer, (b) increased rates of negatively reinforced problem behavior, or (c) increased rates of problem behavior across all conditions.