Evaluation of resistance to change under different disrupter conditions in children with autism and severe intellectual disability
UMass Chan Affiliations
Shriver CenterDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2010-05-02Keywords
AdolescentAutistic Disorder
Child
Female
Food
Humans
Male
Mental Retardation
Neuropsychological Tests
*Reinforcement (Psychology)
Reinforcement Schedule
Severity of Illness Index
Stress, Psychological
Time Factors
Translational Research
Young Adult
Mental and Social Health
Neuroscience and Neurobiology
Psychiatry and Psychology
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Translational research inspired by behavioral momentum theory in the area of developmental disabilities has shown effects in individuals over a range of functioning levels. In the current study, behavioral momentum was assessed in 6 children diagnosed with autism and severe intellectual disability. In a repeated measures design, participants were exposed to relatively rich versus lean reinforcement contingencies in a multiple schedule with food reinforcers. This was followed by exposure to each of four disrupting conditions: prefeeding, presentation of a concurrent alternative stimulus, presentation of a movie, and the presence of a researcher dispensing response-independent reinforcers on a variable-time schedule. Consistently greater resistance to disruption in the component with the richer schedule occurred with the alternative stimulus disrupter but not with the other disrupters. These results suggest parameters that may be more (or less) effective if behavioral momentum inspired techniques are to be exploited in therapeutic environments.Source
J Exp Anal Behav. 2010 May;93(3):369-83. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1901/jeab.2010.93-369Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/48961PubMed ID
21119851Related Resources
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10.1901/jeab.2010.93-369