University of Kansas.
J Appl Behav Anal. 1973 Fall;6(3):443-55. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1973.6-443.
The effectiveness of a brief period of isolation (timeout) in the control of disruptive behavior emitted by a retarded child in a preschool classroom setting was examined. Timeout was shown to be an effective punishing stimulus, and its control of the child's disruptive behavior was investigated under four schedules of intermittent timeout. The results suggest that as a larger percentage of responses were punished, a greater decrease in the frequency of that response occurred. This inverse relationship between the percentage of responses punished and the frequency of the response did not appear to be linear, but rather a non-linear function. This function suggests that some schedules of intermittent punishment may be as effective as continuous punishment, at least in the case of the continued suppression of a response that has already been reduced to a low frequency.
在学前教室环境中,对智障儿童的破坏性行为进行短暂隔离(time-out)的控制效果进行了研究。结果表明,time-out 是一种有效的惩罚刺激,并且在四种间歇性 time-out 时间表下,对儿童的破坏性行为进行了调查。结果表明,随着被惩罚的反应比例增加,该反应的频率会降低。这种被惩罚的反应比例与反应频率之间的反比关系似乎不是线性的,而是一种非线性函数。该函数表明,在已经将反应频率降低到低水平的情况下,某些间歇性惩罚计划可能与连续惩罚一样有效,至少可以继续抑制该反应。