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VARIANT AND INVARIANT HIGH‐PROBABILITY REQUESTS: INCREASING APPROPRIATE BEHAVIORS IN CHILDREN WITH EMOTIONAL‐BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS
Author(s) -
Davis Carol Ann,
Reichle Joe
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.1996.29-471
Subject(s) - psychology , invariant (physics) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , mathematics , mathematical physics
This study examined the effects of variant versus invariant high‐probability (high‐ p ) request sequences on the performance of requests to initiate a social bid by young children with emotional‐behavioral disorders. In the initial phases of the investigation, a multiple baseline design showed that the delivery of invariant sequences (i.e., high‐ p requests delivered in the same sequence) produced initial increases in compliance to requests to initiate a social bid to a peer. However, increases were not maintained across the invariant condition. The delivery of variant high‐ p sequences produced increases in compliance to requests to initiate social bids that were maintained across the variant condition. In a follow‐up condition, the number of requests within the pool of the variant and invariant high‐ p requests were controlled. Results of the follow‐up condition replicated those found in the initial condition. Implications for applied use and future research are discussed.