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Kubra Sayar; Emrah Gulboy; Serife Yucesoy-Ozkan; Muhammet Sait Baran – Behavioral Disorders, 2024
Non-compliance is a challenge for practitioners serving children with and without disabilities. Many interventions have been developed to increase compliance. High-probability request sequences (HPRS), an antecedent-based intervention that is based on behavioral momentum theory, is one way to increase compliant behavior. HPRS includes the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Psychology), Students with Disabilities, Probability, Sequential Approach
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Wang, Yi; Zhang, Liwei; Zhai, Fuhua – Infant and Child Development, 2023
Spanking and parental verbal aggression are potentially toxic stressors that can negatively affect children's academic achievement by disrupting mental skills like executive function. Yet little empirical evidence has been provided for this mediating pathway. This study used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Cohort of…
Descriptors: Punishment, Negative Reinforcement, Verbal Communication, Aggression
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Rossano, Matt J. – Psychological Bulletin, 2012
Social norms are communally agreed upon, morally significant behavioral standards that are, at least in part, responsible for uniquely human forms of cooperation and social organization. This article summarizes evidence demonstrating that ritual and ritualized behaviors are essential to the transmission and reinforcement of social norms.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Behavior Problems, Social Organizations, Norms
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Suppo, Jennifer Lee; Mayton, Michael R. – Young Exceptional Children, 2012
"Bella is a 5-year-old girl with autism who attends a reverse inclusive preschool class. She primarily uses gestures and a communication binder to communicate with others. In addition, she is not toilet trained even though her teachers and her parents have tried numerous attempts over a 3-year period to train her. Bella also has gastrointestinal…
Descriptors: Autism, Toilet Training, Peer Acceptance, Children
LaRue, Robert H.; Stewart, Victoria; Piazza, Cathleen C.; Volkert, Valerie M.; Patel, Meeta R.; Zeleny, Jason – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
Given the effectiveness of putative escape extinction as treatment for feeding problems, it is surprising that little is known about the effects of escape as reinforcement for appropriate eating during treatment. In the current investigation, we examined the effectiveness of escape as reinforcement for mouth clean (a product measure of…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Etiology, Negative Reinforcement, Eating Habits
Vladescu, Jason C.; Kodak, Tiffany – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2010
Although the use of differential reinforcement has been recommended in previous investigations and in early intervention curriculum manuals, few studies have evaluated the best method for providing differential reinforcement to maximize independent responding. This paper reviews previous research on the effectiveness of differential reinforcement…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Early Intervention, Investigations, Reinforcement
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Haine, Rachel A.; Wolchik, Sharlene A.; Sandler, Irwin N.; Millsap, Roger E.; Ayers, Tim S. – Death Studies, 2006
Positive parenting was examined as a protective resource against the adverse effects of negative life events on parentally bereaved children's mental health problems. The sample consisted of 313 recently bereaved children ages 8 to 16 and their current caregiver. Both the compensatory (direct effect independent of negative life events) and the…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Caregivers, Mental Health, Grief