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AN EVALUATION AND COMPARISON OF TIME‐OUT PROCEDURES WITH AND WITHOUT RELEASE CONTINGENCIES
Author(s) -
Donaldson Jeanne M.,
Vollmer Timothy R.
Publication year - 2011
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.2011.44-693
Subject(s) - contingency , psychology , time out , contingency management , time perception , duration (music) , time budget , time management , developmental psychology , computer science , psychiatry , psychotherapist , art , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , cognition , literature , biology , intervention (counseling) , operating system
A common recommendation for implementing time‐out procedures is to include a release contingency such that the individual is not allowed to leave time‐out until no problem behavior has occurred for a specific amount of time (e.g, 30 s). We compared a fixed‐duration time‐out procedure to a release contingency time‐out procedure with 4 young children (3‐ and 4‐year‐olds) using a reversal and multielement design. Results demonstrated that both time‐out procedures were effective at reducing problem behavior outside time‐out, problem behavior occurred in time‐out during both procedures, and problem behavior in time‐out was not predictive of problem behavior outside time‐out.