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Goodwin, Matthew S.; Groden, June; Velicer, Wayne F.; Lipsitt, Lewis P.; Baron, M. Grace; Hofmann, Stefan G.; Groden, Gerald – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2006
Despite the hypothesized link between arousal and behavior in persons with autism, there is a lack of idiographic research that directly assesses arousal responses to novel stimuli or social situations in this population. The current study used heart rate as a measure of sympathetic activity to compare arousal responses to the presentation of…
Descriptors: Behavior, Autism, Correlation, Arousal Patterns
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Gena, Angeliki; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1996
A study of 4 youths (ages 11-18) with autism examined the effectiveness of teaching appropriate affective behavioral responses. Participants were described by teachers as having flat and inappropriate affect. Treatment consisted of modeling, prompting, and reinforcement. The combination of an error-correction procedure and contingent delivery of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Autism, Behavior Change