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DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN EXTINCTION AND PUNISHMENT EFFECTS OF RESPONSE BLOCKING: A REPLICATION
Author(s) -
Smith Richard G.,
Russo Lori,
Le Duy D.
Publication year - 1999
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.1999.32-367
Subject(s) - psychology , punishment (psychology) , blocking (statistics) , extinction (optical mineralogy) , replication (statistics) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , biology
Lerman and Iwata (1996) described a method for distinguishing between sensory extinction and punishment effects of response blocking on self‐injurious behavior maintained independent of social contingencies. Results of their study suggested that blocking decreased the self‐injurious hand mouthing of their participant via punishment. The current replication of these procedures with the self‐injurious eye poking of a woman with developmental disabilities produced patterns of responding indicating that, for this participant, blocking functioned as an extinction procedure.