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Direct linkNevin, John A.; Shahan, Timothy A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
Behavioral momentum theory provides a quantitative account of how reinforcers experienced within a discriminative stimulus context govern the persistence of behavior that occurs in that context. The theory suggests that all reinforcers obtained in the presence of a discriminative stimulus increase resistance to change, regardless of whether those…
Descriptors: Autism, Developmental Disabilities, Children, Behavior Modification
