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EFFECTS OF PREFERENCE AND REINFORCER VARIATION ON WITHIN‐SESSION PATTERNS OF RESPONDING
Author(s) -
KeylAustin Alice A,
Samaha Andrew L,
Bloom Sarah E,
Boyle Megan A
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.2012.45-637
Subject(s) - psychology , session (web analytics) , reinforcement , autism , preference , audiology , developmental psychology , social psychology , statistics , medicine , mathematics , world wide web , computer science
We examined correspondence between preference assessment outcome and within‐session patterns of responding in one subject with autism. Responding maintained by a single highly preferred item resulted in a greater total number of responses, a slower decline in within‐session response rates, and a greater proportion of short interresponse times compared to responding maintained by varied moderately preferred (MP) stimuli. Presenting varied MP stimuli within the same session produced greater levels and more sustained responding than presenting those same stimuli individually.