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THE RELATIVE MOTIVATIONAL PROPERTIES OF SENSORY AND EDIBLE REINFORCERS IN TEACHING AUTISTIC CHILDREN
1985 · Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis; v. 18; n. 3; p. 237-248; Fonte: Wiley
Dados principais
- Ano de publicação
- 1985
- Dados editoriais
- Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis; v. 18; n. 3; p. 237-248; Fonte: Wiley
- Palavras-chave
- JABA; análise do comportamento
Autores
- Arnold Rincover
- Crighton D. Newsom
Resumo
We compared the effects of sensory and edible reinforcers on resistance to satiation in three autistic children while learning visual discrimination tasks. Within‐subject designs were used to compare a single sensory reinforcer with a single edible reinforcer and to compare multiple sensory reinforcers with multiple edibles. Results indicated that multiple sensory reinforcers maintained responding over more trials than did multiple edible reinforcers; however, the use of single sensory reinforcers and single edibles resulted in about equal numbers of trials to satiation. Both multiple and single sensory reinforcers produced higher percentages of correct responses than edible reinforcers. The findings are discussed in terms of the advantages of sensory reinforcers in teaching autistic children.