Wahler R G, Dumas J E
J Appl Behav Anal. 1986 Spring;19(1):13-22. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1986.19-13.
Two stimulus control processes by which some parent-child dyads occasionally escalate their aversive exchanges into progressively more coercive interactions are described. The compliance hypothesis suggests that aversive actions have instructional properties for the dyad and that parent compliance with such child instructions maintains behavior chains of increasing aversiveness. The predictability hypothesis suggests that social interactions are most likely to function as aversive stimuli in the dyad when delivered in unpredictable fashion by either party and that responses instrumental in reducing dyadic unpredictability maintain aversive behavior chains. Expectations derived from both hypotheses are evaluated in a series of correlational analyses of mother-child interactions obtained in extended baseline observations of three dyads seeking psychological help for severe interactional problems. Results provide tentative support for the predictability hypothesis and suggest important avenues of further research.
本文描述了两种刺激控制过程，通过这两种过程，一些亲子二元组偶尔会将他们的厌恶交流升级为逐渐更具强制性的互动。顺从假设表明，厌恶行为对二元组具有指导性质，并且父母对孩子此类指令的顺从维持了越来越具厌恶性质的行为链。可预测性假设表明，当一方以不可预测的方式进行社交互动时，社交互动在二元组中最有可能充当厌恶刺激，并且有助于减少二元组不可预测性的反应维持了厌恶行为链。在对三个因严重互动问题寻求心理帮助的二元组进行的长期基线观察中获得的母子互动的一系列相关分析中，对来自这两种假设的预期进行了评估。结果为可预测性假设提供了初步支持，并提出了进一步研究的重要途径。
