University of Florida.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2020 Jan;53(1):522-535. doi: 10.1002/jaba.610. Epub 2019 Jul 10.
Morris and Vollmer (2020) evaluated a novel method of assessing preference for social interaction, which they called the Social Interaction Preference Assessment (SIPA), and found it often produced hierarchies similar to a concurrent operant reinforcer assessment. We replicated and extended these findings. In study 1, we evaluated the stability of the SIPA hierarchies by conducting multiple SIPAs with 5 participants diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In Study 2, we evaluated the validity and utility of these hierarchies by providing different social interactions as consequences for skill acquisition tasks with 3 participants from the first study. Varying degrees of stability in the SIPA hierarchies and a high level of correspondence between these hierarchies and rates of acquisition during the reinforcer assessment were observed. These findings and their implications are discussed.
莫里斯和沃尔默（2020）评估了一种评估社交互动偏好的新方法，他们称之为社交互动偏好评估（SIPA），并发现它经常产生类似于同时进行的操作性强化评估的层次结构。我们对这些发现进行了复制和扩展。在研究 1 中，我们通过对 5 名被诊断为自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的参与者进行多次 SIPA，评估了 SIPA 层次结构的稳定性。在研究 2 中，我们通过为第一个研究中的 3 名参与者提供不同的社交互动作为技能获得任务的后果，评估了这些层次结构的有效性和实用性。观察到 SIPA 层次结构具有不同程度的稳定性，并且这些层次结构与强化评估期间的获得率之间存在高度一致性。讨论了这些发现及其意义。
