Department of Applied Behavior Analysis, Caldwell University, Caldwell, NJ, USA.
Roots Applied Behavior Analysis Autism Treatment Center, Cedar Knolls, NJ, USA.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2024 Jul;57(3):776-783. doi: 10.1002/jaba.1071. Epub 2024 Mar 19.
We evaluated the effects of a discrimination training procedure for establishing praise as a reinforcer for three children with autism spectrum disorder. After establishing two praise words as discriminative stimuli and two nonsense words as S-deltas, we evaluated whether the stimuli then functioned as reinforcers by presenting each stimulus as a consequence for a new response. The results demonstrated that previously neutral praise words functioned as reinforcers and nonsense words did not. As in previous studies on establishing reinforcers, the effects were transitory, and praise words did not continue to function as reinforcers after repeated exposure without discrimination training. Recommendations are provided for future research and maintaining reinforcement effects.
我们评估了一种歧视性训练程序对三位自闭症谱系障碍儿童建立表扬作为强化物的效果。在确定两个表扬词作为鉴别性刺激词和两个无意义词作为 S-差异词后，我们评估了这些刺激词是否通过将每个刺激词作为新反应的结果呈现来发挥强化物的作用。结果表明，先前中性的表扬词起到了强化物的作用，而无意义词则没有。与之前关于建立强化物的研究一样，这些效果是短暂的，而且在没有歧视性训练的重复暴露后，表扬词并没有继续作为强化物发挥作用。我们为未来的研究和维持强化效果提供了建议。
