Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 1 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 12 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 54 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 234 |
Descriptor
Reinforcement | 817 |
Operant Conditioning | 464 |
Behavior Change | 277 |
Conditioning | 250 |
Responses | 218 |
Verbal Operant Conditioning | 141 |
Stimuli | 118 |
Exceptional Child Research | 117 |
Mental Retardation | 108 |
Behavioral Science Research | 100 |
Animals | 99 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Greer, R. Douglas | 9 |
Shahan, Timothy A. | 7 |
Lattal, Kennon A. | 5 |
Repp, Alan C. | 5 |
Barnes-Holmes, Dermot | 4 |
Bouton, Mark E. | 4 |
Bricker, William A. | 4 |
Davison, Michael | 4 |
Fantino, Edmund | 4 |
Moore, J. | 4 |
Palmer, David C. | 4 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Higher Education | 13 |
Preschool Education | 12 |
Early Childhood Education | 9 |
Elementary Education | 7 |
Postsecondary Education | 6 |
Primary Education | 2 |
Grade 2 | 1 |
Grade 3 | 1 |
High Schools | 1 |
Kindergarten | 1 |
Audience
Researchers | 8 |
Practitioners | 7 |
Teachers | 3 |
Students | 1 |
Location
Vermont | 8 |
California | 2 |
Canada | 2 |
District of Columbia | 2 |
Japan | 2 |
Spain | 2 |
Arizona | 1 |
Australia | 1 |
Brazil | 1 |
California (Stanford) | 1 |
Florida | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Elementary and Secondary… | 2 |
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Derman, Rifka C.; Schneider, Kevin; Juarez, Shaina; Delamater, Andrew R. – Learning & Memory, 2018
When discrete localizable stimuli are used during appetitive Pavlovian conditioning, "sign-tracking" and "goal-tracking" responses emerge. Sign-tracking is observed when conditioned responding is directed toward the CS, whereas goal-tracking manifests as responding directed to the site of expected reward delivery. These…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Responses, Stimuli, Rewards
Syed, Noor Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In a series of three experiments, I investigated the emergence of conditioned seeing, defined as delayed drawing responses, as a potential component of bidirectional naming (BiN) for unfamiliar stimuli, which was defined in this study as the emergence of untaught listener and speaker responses following a naming experience with school-aged…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Autism, Classical Conditioning, Naming
Landa, Robin K.; Hansen, Bethany; Shillingsburg, M. Alice – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2017
Previous research has evaluated contrived motivating operations to teach mands for information. However, literature evaluating acquisition of the mand "when?" is comparatively limited. As an extension of Shillingsburg, Bowen, Valentino, & Pierce (2014), we taught three children with autism to engage in mands for information using…
Descriptors: Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Children, Autism
Peterson, Stephanie M.; Frieder, Jessica E.; Quigley, Shawn P.; Kestner, Kathryn M.; Goyal, Manish; Smith, Shilo L.; Dayton, Elizabeth; Brower-Breitwieser, Carrie – Education and Treatment of Children, 2017
One measure of success for interventions treating problem behavior is the effects achieved in the face of a challenge (e.g., changes in reinforcement schedules, lapses in treatment integrity); one hopes to demonstrate persistence of appropriate alternatives and the absence of resurgence of target behaviors. The present study successfully treated…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Maintenance, Behavior Problems, Outcomes of Treatment
Henley, Amy J.; Hirst, Jason M.; DiGennaro Reed, Florence D.; Becirevic, Amel; Reed, Derek D. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2017
This study evaluated the effects of four instructional variants on instruction following under changing reinforcement schedules using an operant task based on Hackenberg and Joker's "Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior," 62, 367-383 (1994) experimental preparation. Sixteen college-aged adults served as participants and were…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, College Students, Young Adults
Lynch, Yvonne; McCleary, Muireann; Smith, Martine – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2018
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) refers to a wide range of aided and unaided modes that are employed with a diverse group of people to support a range of language and communication outcomes. Children whose comprehension of spoken language greatly exceeds their ability to express themselves within that modality can be described as…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Program Effectiveness, Children, Adolescents
Centone, Kayla; Dilks, Abigail; Tincani, Matt – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Manding for preferred items and activities is a critical skill for young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, little research has evaluated procedures to teach children with ASD to mand with their peers. This study evaluated the effects of a teaching package involving least-to-most prompting to increase peer-directed vocal…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement
DeSouza, Andresa A.; Akers, Jessica S.; Fisher, Wayne W. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2017
Sundberg and Michael (2011) reviewed the contributions of Skinner's (1957) "Verbal Behavior" to the treatment of language delays in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and discussed several aspects of interventions, including mand training, intraverbal repertoire development, and the importance of using Skinner's taxonomy of…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Autism
Kleinert, Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The experimenter conducted three experiments to compare incidental language acquisition of familiar and non-familiar stimuli, and asses the effects of specific pairing experiences on the emergence of bidirectional naming (BiN) for familiar and non-familiar stimuli. In Experiment I the experimenter assessed the numbers of accurate untaught listener…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Naming, Familiarity, Stimuli
Lepper, Tracy L.; Petursdottir, Anna Ingeborg – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2017
Research on stimulus-stimulus pairing to induce novel vocalizations in nonverbal children has typically employed response-independent pairing (RIP) procedures to condition speech sounds as reinforcers. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effects of a response-contingent pairing (RCP) procedure on the vocalizations of three…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Program Effectiveness, Males
Conallen, K.; Reed, P. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2017
Background: Two procedures were developed to teach individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders labels (tacts) for various private events (emotions): Study 1 attempted to distinguish them from pure tacts and mands (requests); and Study 2 attempted to train initiating a conversation with grammatically correct subject-verb-comment construction.…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Psychological Patterns
Brodhead, Matthew T.; Higbee, Thomas S.; Gerencser, Kristina R.; Akers, Jessica S. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2016
We investigated the effects of a script-fading and discrimination-training procedure on mand variability in preschoolers with autism. Participants were taught to vary their vocal mands in the presence of written scripts, a green placemat, and a lag schedule of reinforcement. They were also taught to engage in repetitive mands in the presence of…
Descriptors: Autism, Preschool Children, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement
Leaf, Justin B.; Oppenheim-Leaf, Misty L.; Townley-Cochran, Donna; Leaf, Jeremy A.; Alcalay, Aditt; Milne, Christine; Kassardjian, Alyne; Tsuji, Kathleen; Dale, Stephanie; Leaf, Ronald; Taubman, Mitchell; McEachin, John – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2016
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have qualitative impairments in social interaction and often prefer food or tangible reinforcement to social reinforcement. Thus, therapists who work with children with ASD often use food or tangible items as reinforcers to increase appropriate behaviors or decrease problem behaviors. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Preferences
Schmidt, Jonathan D.; Bednar, Mary K.; Willse, Lena V.; Goetzel, Amanda L.; Concepcion, Anthony; Pincus, Shari M.; Hardesty, Samantha L.; Bowman, Lynn G. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2017
A primary goal of behavioral interventions is to reduce dangerous or inappropriate behavior and to generalize treatment effects across various settings. However, there is a lack of research evaluating generalization of treatment effects while individuals with functionally equivalent problem behavior interact with each other. For the current study,…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Adults, Behavior Problems, Verbal Operant Conditioning
Gamba, Jonas; Goyos, Celso; Petursdottir, Anna Ingeborg – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2015
Recently, there has been a proliferation of research on the functional independence of two of Skinner's (1957) verbal operants, the mand, and the tact. This research has produced highly variable results. In this article, we provide a critical review of the literature on mand-tact independence, a literature that has implications for both theory and…
Descriptors: Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Literature Reviews, Training