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FURTHER EVALUATION OF THE ACCURACY OF REINFORCER SURVEYS: A SYSTEMATIC REPLICATION
Author(s) -
Northup John
Publication year - 2000
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.2000.33-335
Subject(s) - reinforcement , replication (statistics) , psychology , preference , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , audiology , statistics , social psychology , medicine , mathematics
The present report evaluates the accuracy of a reinforcer survey by comparing the survey results to the results of subsequent reinforcer assessments for 20 children using a concurrent‐operants arrangement to assess relative reinforcer preference. Total accuracy for the survey was determined to be approximately 57%. The results provide a systematic replication of Northup et al. (1996) with a much larger sample of children. A need for the development of more accurate and comprehensive reinforcer assessment methods for verbal children is discussed.