ERIC Number: EJ1157213
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Publication Date: 2017
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A Method to Establish Stimulus Control and Compliance with Instructions
Borgen, John G.; Mace, F. Charles; Cavanaugh, Brenna M.; Shamlian, Kenneth; Lit, Keith R.; Wilson, Jillian B.; Trauschke, Stephanie L.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, v50 n4 p830-842 Fall 2017
We evaluated a unique procedure to establish compliance with instructions in four young children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who had low levels of compliance. Our procedure included methods to establish a novel therapist as a source of positive reinforcement, reliably evoke orienting responses to the therapist, increase the number of exposures to instruction-compliance-reinforcer contingencies, and minimize the number of exposures to instruction-noncompliance-no reinforcer contingencies. We further alternated between instructions with a high probability of compliance (high-p instructions) with instructions that had a prior low probability of compliance (low-p instructions) as soon as low-p instructions lost stimulus control. The intervention is discussed in relation to the conditions necessary for the development of stimulus control and as an example of a variation of translational research.
Descriptors: Compliance (Psychology), Young Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Positive Reinforcement, Probability, Intervention, Stimuli
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Language: English
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