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EFFECTS OF PRESESSION ATTENTION ON THE FREQUENCY OF ATTENTION‐MAINTAINED BEHAVIOR
Author(s) -
O'Reilly Mark F.
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.1999.32-371
Subject(s) - psychology , reinforcement , developmental psychology , functional analysis , audiology , clinical psychology , social psychology , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
The effect of prior attention was systematically manipulated to study its influence on rates of yelling and head hitting, both maintained by positive reinforcement in the form of attention. Higher levels of head hitting occurred in analogue attention conditions when the person was deprived of attention (no social interactions for 1 hr) prior to the analysis in comparison to when the person received high levels of attention (attention delivered on a fixed‐time 30‐s schedule for 1 hr) prior to the analysis.