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Area of Science:

  • Behavioral Science
  • Applied Behavior Analysis

Background:

  • Functional analysis is key to understanding behavior.
  • Behavior can be maintained by single or multiple sources of reinforcement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine the prevalence of multiple control in behavior analysis research.
  • To investigate if response aggregation influences the identification of multiple control.

Main Methods:

  • Reviewed 168 studies from the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
  • Analyzed data for 521 subjects to identify instances of multiple control.
  • Examined response topographies associated with multiple control.

Main Results:

  • Multiple control was identified in 16.9% of subjects (88 out of 521).
  • Most cases of multiple control involved aggregated response topographies (87.5% of multiple control cases).
  • A small percentage of subjects showed single response topographies (2.1%).

Conclusions:

  • Multiple control is a relevant phenomenon in applied behavior analysis.
  • Response aggregation during assessment may inflate the observed rate of multiple control.
  • Further research should consider distinct response topographies in functional analyses.