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ALTERING THE TIMING OF ACADEMIC PROMPTS TO TREAT DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR MAINTAINED BY ESCAPE
Author(s) -
Ebanks Mercedes E.,
Fisher Wayne W.
Publication year - 2003
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.2003.36-355
Subject(s) - antecedent (behavioral psychology) , psychology , task (project management) , corrective feedback , cognitive psychology , functional analysis , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , management , economics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Following a functional analysis showing that destructive behavior was reinforced by escape, we altered the aversiveness of task demands by interspersing easy and difficult tasks and by presenting a corrective prompt as an antecedent event the next time a previously failed item was presented; this procedure was compared with one in which the corrective prompt was provided as an immediate consequence. Results of a reversal design showed that the antecedent prompt acted as an establishing operation and reduced destructive behavior to zero.