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Peer reviewedMullins, Marc; Rincover, Arnold – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Compared to mental and chronological age-matched groups of normal children, six autistic children (1) did not maximize reinforcement; (2) sampled less, and less efficiently; and (3) were much less responsive to extinction. Autistic sampling behavior was redirected by stimulus change. Results are viewed as perhaps causally related to many…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Chronological Age, Comparative Analysis
