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Sara Germansky; Patricia Snyder; BoRam Song – Journal of Early Intervention, 2025
The purpose of this study was to use a direct behavioral observation coding system to quantify and categorize children's mands and teachers' contingent responses in three types of typically occurring preschool classroom activities. Children's mands were categorized based on their presumed function, and teachers' responses were coded based on…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Response, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement
Love, Jessica June – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of PECS phase III application training on independent mands in young children with autism. Participants were five children with autism ranging from ages 2 to 4 years old. A multiple baseline across participants was used to evaluate acquisition of independent correct mands across baseline and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Verbal Operant Conditioning
Nevin, John A.; Davison, Michael; Odum, Amy L.; Shahan, Timothy A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
A theory of attending and reinforcement in conditional discriminations (Nevin, Davison, & Shahan, 2005) is extended to working memory in delayed matching to sample by adding terms for disruption of attending during the retention interval. Like its predecessor, the theory assumes that reinforcers and disruptors affect the independent probabilities…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Attention, Reinforcement, Short Term Memory

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