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EFFECTS OF EXTINCTION ALONE AND EXTINCTION PLUS FUNCTIONAL COMMUNICATION TRAINING ON COVARIATION OF PROBLEM BEHAVIORS
Author(s) -
Shukla Smita,
Albin Richard W.
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.1996.29-565
Subject(s) - extinction (optical mineralogy) , psychology , functional analysis , developmental psychology , audiology , optics , biology , medicine , physics , genetics , gene
In this investigation, extinction (EXT) was applied alone or in combination with functional communication training (FCT) to less severe topographies of problem behavior while more severe topographies continued to be reinforced. EXT alone decreased less severe and increased more severe topographies of problem behavior (i.e., response covariation), whereas EXT with FCT reduced all topographies of problem behavior to near‐zero levels.