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Social Reinforcers
Social reinforcers are a common component of behavior intervention programs for increasing adaptive behavior and decreasing maladaptive behavior....
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Tangible Reinforcers: Conceptual Overview and Considerations for Practice
Tangible reinforcers are the most common stimuli used by behavior analysts as consequences in skill acquisition and behavior reduction programming...
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Optimizing Learning Outcomes when Teaching Sight Words using Fruits and Vegetables as Reinforcers
Reinforcers frequently chosen may not offer the same nutritional value as fruits and vegetables. Prior researchers have explored preferences and the...
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A Survey of Why and How Clinicians Change Reinforcers during Teaching Sessions
Preference assessments are used to make data-based decisions about which stimuli to use as reinforcers but they can be challenging to conduct...
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Effects of the Response Requirement on Rats’ Choice between Probabilistic Reinforcers
Subjects persist more or wait out delays longer than optimal, given the reward structure of the environment, the availability of information about...
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Big Surprises: Jackpot Reinforcers in Research and Practice
Unusually large, infrequent reinforcers, described as jackpots, are the subject of considerable discussion among applied animal behaviorists. Such...
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Stimulus Preference Assessments
The use of effective reinforcers is paramount to the effective treatment for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD)....
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The Vantage Points of Assistants and Reinforcers
This chapter focuses on the pro-bullying roles of assistant and reinforcer. These roles are responsible for providing some form of social reward to...
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Serial pattern learning: The anticipation of worsening conditions by pigeons
In general, animals are known to be sensitive to the immediacy of reinforcers. That is, they are generally impulsive and outcomes that occur in the...
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Reinforcer Thinning: General Approaches and Considerations for Maintaining Skills and Mitigating Relapse
Programming dense schedules of potent reinforcers is typically needed to establish new behavior and, in some cases, to continue suppressing...
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Token Economies
Token economies are flexible behavioral intervention systems in which conditioned reinforcers, tokens, are delivered contingent upon appropriate...
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The Emergence of Bidirectional Naming Through Sequential Operant Instruction Following the Establishment of Conditioned Social Reinforcers
Bidirectional naming (BiN) is the integration of speaker and listener responses, reinforced by social consequences. Unfortunately, these consequences...
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Treatment Integrity, Commission Errors, and Reinstatement: A Primer
In the context of problem behavior, treatment integrity refers to the extent to which a behavioral intervention is implemented as intended....
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Control of Transition Time by the Likely Future as Signalled from the Past in Children with ASD
The signaling perspective offers an alternative to the Skinnerian view of understanding behavior. The signaling effects of reinforcers have...
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Effects of Commission and Omission Errors on the Efficacy of Noncontingent Reinforcement
Noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) is an effective behavioral intervention when implemented consistently. NCR may be particularly well-suited for use...
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A contextualized reinforcer pathology approach to addiction
Behavioural economic accounts of addiction conceptualize harmful drug use as an operant reinforcer pathology, emphasizing that a drug is consumed...
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When Cultural Awareness Reveals Conflicting Cultural Values: A Pragmatic Approach
Cultural awareness reminds ABA service providers of the importance of considering the cultural practices of others when programming for behavior...
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Reinforcement
Within the field of behavior analysis, one of the most important principles is reinforcement. Reinforcement is defined as contingent application of a...
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Observation, Language Learning, and Development: The Verbal Behavior Development Theory
A review of recent applied research in observation suggests researchers could profit from a new account of observational learning. Current research...
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The process and mechanisms of personality change
Although personality is relatively stable across the lifespan, there is also ample evidence that it is malleable. This potential for change is...
