EVALUATION OF RESISTANCE TO CHANGE UNDER DIFFERENT DISRUPTER CONDITIONS IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM AND SEVERE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
- 1 May 2010
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 93 (3), 369-383
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2010.93-369
Abstract
Translational research inspired by behavioral momentum theory in the area of developmental disabilities has shown effects in individuals over a range of functioning levels. In the current study, behavioral momentum was assessed in 6 children diagnosed with autism and severe intellectual disability. In a repeated measures design, participants were exposed to relatively rich versus lean reinforcement contingencies in a multiple schedule with food reinforcers. This was followed by exposure to each of four disrupting conditions: prefeeding, presentation of a concurrent alternative stimulus, presentation of a movie, and the presence of a researcher dispensing response-independent reinforcers on a variable-time schedule. Consistently greater resistance to disruption in the component with the richer schedule occurred with the alternative stimulus disrupter but not with the other disrupters. These results suggest parameters that may be more (or less) effective if behavioral momentum inspired techniques are to be exploited in therapeutic environments.Keywords
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