强化剂值适度响应大小和灭绝期间的持久性:一个随机试验
Joseph M Lambert1, Maria A Osina2, Bailey A Copeland1
1Department of Special Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Journal of applied behavior analysis
|June 3, 2024
概括
灭绝爆发,在灭绝期间行为暂时增加,可以阻碍对具有挑战性的行为的干预. 了解相对于需求强度的增强器消耗是缓解这些爆发的关键.
科学领域:
- 行为科学是一种行为科学.
- 发展障碍研究 发展障碍研究
- 应用行为分析应用行为分析.
背景情况:
- 灭绝爆发,在灭绝期间行为强度的暂时增加的特点,可以阻碍对严重挑战性行为的基于灭绝的干预措施的使用.
- 识别反应持久性和灭绝爆发的潜在行为机制对于开发有效干预措施至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查与需求强度和Pmax相关的先行操纵对灭绝期间目标响应的影响.
- 确定影响发育障碍成人的反应持久性和灭绝爆发的关键行为经济参数.
主要方法:
- 一个2x2因数,交叉,随机匹配的块设计被用在69个成年人的发育障碍.
- 在四个测试组中,系统地应用了涉及需求强度和Pmax的明显先行操纵.
- 评估了灭绝期间的目标响应,以评估这些操纵的影响.
主要成果:
- 由于需求强度和Pmax操纵,观察到目标响应的统计学上显著差异.
- 与需求强度相对应的强化剂消费的变化成为所有依赖变量中最有影响力的因素.
- 这表明,消费和需求强度之间的关系显著影响了灭绝效应.
结论:
- 与需求强度相对应的增强器消耗在减轻和加剧不良附带灭绝效应方面发挥着关键作用,例如灭绝爆发.
- 了解这些灭绝前因素对于改进旨在抑制严重挑战性行为的干预方案至关重要.
- 这些发现强调了行为经济学原则在应用行为分析和干预设计中的重要性.
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