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Peer reviewedFisher, Wayne; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1992
This study found that, compared to measuring approach behaviors to a variety of stimuli, a forced-choice stimulus preference assessment used with four young children with severe mental retardation resulted in greater differentiation among stimuli and better predicted which stimuli would result in higher levels of responding when presented…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Identification, Operant Conditioning, Positive Reinforcement
