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TREATING EXCESSIVELY SLOW RESPONDING OF A YOUNG MAN WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME USING DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT OF SHORT RESPONSE LATENCIES
Author(s) -
Tiger Jeffrey H.,
Bouxsein Kelly J.,
Fisher Wayne W.
Publication year - 2007
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.2007.40-559
Subject(s) - reinforcement , psychology , differential reinforcement , contingency , asperger syndrome , latency (audio) , developmental psychology , contingency management , differential (mechanical device) , cognitive psychology , autism , psychiatry , social psychology , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , telecommunications , intervention (counseling) , aerospace engineering , engineering
Fjellstedt and Sulzer‐Azaroff (1973) used differential reinforcement of short latencies to decrease a child's latency to comply with instructions. We replicated this contingency with a young man diagnosed with Asperger syndrome across two tasks (question answering and math problem solving). We added a differential reinforcement contingency to teach the participant to discriminate between math problems that could be answered rapidly and those that required more time for accurate performance.