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Madden, Gregory J.; Mahmoudi, Saba; Brown, Katherine – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2023
Conditioned reinforcers are widely used in applied behavior analysis. Basic research evidence reveals that Pavlovian learning plays an important role in the acquisition and efficacy of new conditioned-reinforcer functions. Thus, a better understanding of Pavlovian principles holds the promise of improving the efficacy of conditioned reinforcement…
Descriptors: Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement, Behavior Modification, Applied Behavior Analysis
Javid A. Rahaman; Kevin C. Luczynski – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2024
Behavioral readiness can take the form of communication and self-control skills during challenging situations that are correlated with the development of problem behavior. A skill-based approach can teach behavioral readiness using procedures that involve synthesized reinforcement, probabilistic reinforcement, and contingency-based delays;…
Descriptors: Applied Behavior Analysis, Readiness, Self Control, Behavior Problems
Staubitz, Johanna L.; Lloyd, Blair P.; Reed, Derek D. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
Progressive delay training (PDT) has been used to promote self-controlled choices (i.e., selecting a larger, later reward over a smaller, immediate reward) for people with a variety of developmental characteristics. However, the efficacy of PDT has not been evaluated in children with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD), who often have…
Descriptors: Self Control, Training, Elementary School Students, Emotional Disturbances
Cohrs, Corey M.; Shriver, Mark D.; Burke, Raymond V.; Allen, Keith D. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2016
We evaluated the impact of antecedent specificity in goal statements on adherence to positive behavior-management strategies. Teaching staff were recruited from 2 different school settings where there were routine expectations to use behavior-specific praise in the classroom, but adherence was poor. In a concurrent multiple baseline design, the…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Intervention, Behavior Modification, Self Control
Luczynski, Kevin C.; Hanley, Gregory P.; Rodriguez, Nicole M. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
The preschool life skills (PLS) program (Hanley, Heal, Tiger, & Ingvarsson, 2007; Luczynski & Hanley, 2013) involves teaching social skills as a means of decreasing and preventing problem behavior. However, achieving durable outcomes as children transition across educational settings depend on the generalization and long-term maintenance…
Descriptors: Generalization, Maintenance, Skill Development, Prompting
Perrin, Christopher J.; Neef, Nancy A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine variables that affect self-control in the context of academic task completion by elementary school children with autism. In the baseline assessment of Study 1, mathematics problem completion was shown to be an aversive event, and sensitivity to task magnitude, task difficulty, and delay to task completion…
Descriptors: Autism, Elementary School Students, Self Control, Mathematics
Bicard, David F.; Lott, Valorie; Mills, Jessica; Bicard, Sara; Baylot-Casey, Laura – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
This study examined the effects of text messaging class arrival to an academic counselor on the attendance and punctuality of 4 college student athletes. Each participant had a history of class tardiness and was considered to be at risk for academic failure. Class attendance and punctuality improved for all participants. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Attendance, Academic Failure, Athletes, Self Control
Passage, Michael; Tincani, Matt; Hantula, Donald A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
This study examined the effectiveness of using qualitatively different reinforcers to teach self-control to an adolescent boy who had been diagnosed with an intellectual disability. First, he was instructed to engage in an activity without programmed reinforcement. Next, he was instructed to engage in the activity under a two-choice fixed-duration…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Behavior Modification, Reinforcement, Mental Retardation
Luczynski, Kevin C.; Hanley, Gregory P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2013
We evaluated the effects of the preschool life skills program (PLS; Hanley, Heal, Tiger, & Ingvarsson, 2007) on the acquisition and maintenance of functional communication and self-control skills, as well as its effect on problem behavior, of small groups of preschoolers at risk for school failure. Six children were taught to request teacher…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Prevention, Behavior Problems, Communication Skills
Dixon, Mark R.; Tibbetts, Pamela A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2009
Three adolescents with traumatic brain injury performed a physical therapy task in the absence of programmed consequences or duration requirements. Next, the experimenter gave the participants the options of a smaller immediate reinforcer with no response requirement or a larger delayed reinforcer with a response requirement. Self-control training…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments, Physical Therapy
Reed, Derek D.; Martens, Brian K. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
Typical assessments of temporal discounting involve presenting choices between hypothetical monetary outcomes. Participants choose between smaller immediate rewards and larger delayed rewards to determine how the passage of time affects the subjective value of reinforcement. Few studies, however, have compared such discounting to actual…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Predictive Validity, Rewards, Reinforcement
Lerman, Dorothea C.; Addison, Laura R.; Kodak, Tiffany – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2006
When faced with a choice between two aversive events, a person exhibits self-control by choosing a smaller, more immediate aversive event over a larger, delayed aversive event. Task demands are often aversive to children with autism and other developmental disabilities. The purpose of this study was to evaluate behavioral sensitivity to…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Autism, Behavior Problems, Self Control

Giebenhain, Jean E.; O'Dell, Stan L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1984
A manual to teach parents how to help their six children (3-11 years old) overcome fear of the dark included desensitization, reinforcemnt, and verbal self-control statements. Data indicated that all children were sleeping all night with the rheostat set at criterion level or lower within two weeks after initiation of treatment. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Fear, Parent Education, Reinforcement
Delano, Monica E. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2007
The effects of a multicomponent intervention involving self-regulated strategy development delivered via video self-modeling on the written language performance of 3 students with Asperger syndrome were examined. During intervention sessions, each student watched a video of himself performing strategies for increasing the number of words written…
Descriptors: Written Language, Intervention, Asperger Syndrome, Writing Skills

Stevenson, Howard C.; Fantuzzo, John W. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1984
The assessment of generalization has become a priority of applied behavior analysis. The study provided a thorough assessement of the generality of a comprehensive self-control intervention designed to increase the math performance of an underachieving student in a regular elementary school classroom. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Generalization, Intervention