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SHAPING EXHALE DURATIONS FOR BREATH CO DETECTION FOR MEN WITH MILD MENTAL RETARDATION
Author(s) -
Rea Jerry,
Williams Dean
Publication year - 2002
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.2002.35-415
Subject(s) - replicate , psychology , audiology , exhalation , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , statistics , mathematics , radiology
Roll, Higgins, and Badger (1996) used a carbon monoxide (CO) detector to determine whether participants smoked in a smoking‐cessation study. We sought to replicate their work with adults with mild mental retardation. However, verbal instructions were inadequate to establish stable exhalations of sufficient durations for reliable and accurate CO evaluation. This report describes a shaping procedure that enabled 3 of 4 participants to achieve 20‐s exhalation durations.