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Environmental enrichment and response cost: immediate and subsequent effects on stereotypy
Nicholas Watkins1, John T Rapp
1Douglas College.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
|January 16, 2014
Abstract:
We assessed the immediate and subsequent effects of environmental enrichment (EE) as a stand-alone intervention and when EE was combined with response cost (RC) for 5 participants using a 2-component multiple-schedule design. Environmental enrichment failed to decrease any participant's immediate engagement in stereotypy; however, the addition of RC decreased the immediate engagement in stereotypy for all participants. After the withdrawal of EE plus RC, stereotypy did not immediately increase for 3 of 5 participants.

