Using a stimulus correlated with reprimands to suppress automatically maintained eye poking |
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Authors: | McKenzie Scott D Smith Richard G Simmons Jason N Soderlund Michael J |
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Affiliation: | University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203, USA. |
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Abstract: | A functional analysis indicated that chronic eye poking exhibited by a woman with profound mental retardation persisted in the absence of social contingencies. We initiated a procedure in which a therapist delivered a punisher (mild reprimand) contingent on eye poking in the presence, but not the absence, of a neutral stimulus (wristbands). Subsequently, eye poking was suppressed when the participant wore the wristbands in novel environments without the reprimand contingency. |
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Keywords: | generalization punishment reprimands stimulus control |
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