University of Kansas, USA.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2009 Fall;42(3):711-6. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2009.42-711.
We sought to address limitations of prior research that has isolated choice as an independent variable. Children's preferences for the opportunity to choose were evaluated in a concurrent-chains arrangement in which identical consequences were available in choice and no-choice conditions. Results demonstrated that preference for choice, in and of itself, was (a) evident in children, (b) not controlled by illusory discriminative stimuli such as the amount from which to choose, and (c) generally unaffected by less preferred and potentially unimportant consequences.
我们试图解决先前研究的局限性，即孤立选择作为一个自变量。在同时链安排中评估了儿童对选择机会的偏好，在选择和无选择条件下提供相同的后果。结果表明，选择本身的偏好，（a）在儿童中是明显的，（b）不受选择数量等虚幻的辨别刺激的控制，（c）通常不受不太受欢迎和可能不重要的后果的影响。
