An evaluation of the value of choice-making opportunities in single-operant arrangements: simple fixed- and progressive-ratio schedules |
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| Authors: | Tiger Jeffrey H Toussaint Karen A Roath Christopher T |
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| Affiliation: | Psychology Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA. jtiger@lsu.edu |
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| Abstract: | The current study compared the effects of choice and no-choice reinforcement conditions on the task responding of 3 children with autism across 2 single-operant paradigm reinforcer assessments. The first assessment employed simple fixed-ratio (FR) schedules; the second used progressive-ratio (PR) schedules. The latter assessment identified the differential strength of choice-making conditions in promoting task responding relative to no-choice conditions for 2 participants; no differential findings were obtained during the FR assessment. |
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| Keywords: | choice fixed‐ratio schedule progressive‐ratio schedule reinforcer assessment |
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