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DISRUPTIVE EFFECTS OF CONTINGENT FOOD ON HIGH‐PROBABILITY BEHAVIOR
Author(s) -
FrankCrawford Michelle A.,
Borrero John C.,
Nguyen Linda,
LeonEnriquez Yanerys,
CarreauWebster Abbey B.,
Deleon Iser G.
Publication year - 2012
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.2012.45-143
Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus control , discriminative model , stimulus (psychology) , food delivery , unconditioned stimulus , reinforcement , feeding behavior , developmental psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , classical conditioning , marketing , statistics , conditioning , medicine , business , endocrinology , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , nicotine
The delivery of food contingent on 10 s of consecutive toy engagement resulted in a decrease in engagement and a corresponding increase in other responses that had been previously reinforced with food. Similar effects were not observed when tokens exchangeable for the same food were delivered, suggesting that engagement was disrupted by the contingent provision of the food, which may have functioned as a discriminative stimulus that occasioned competing responses.