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FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS AND EXTINCTION OF DIFFERENT BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS EXHIBITED BY THE SAME INDIVIDUAL
Author(s) -
Richman David M.,
Wacker David P.,
Asmus Jennifer M.,
Casey Sean D.
Publication year - 1998
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.1998.31-475
Subject(s) - extinction (optical mineralogy) , psychology , functional analysis , function (biology) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , evolutionary biology , chemistry , biology , physics , optics , biochemistry , gene
Specific extinction procedures were matched to the function of two target behaviors displayed by the same individual, with results indicating that the matched extinction procedure suppressed the behavior for which it was designed. One of the target behaviors was exposed to an irrelevant extinction procedure, which produced no beneficial effects. These results support previous research indicating the need to match extinction procedures to the function of problem behavior.