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- Title
The Effects of Choice Between Nonpreferred Foods on the Food Consumption of Individuals with Food Selectivity.
- Authors
Fernand, Jonathan K.; Penrod, Becky; Fu, Sherrene Brice; Whelan, Colleen M.; Medved, Shannon
- Abstract
Previous research has concluded that presenting individuals with the opportunity to choose is a viable treatment for escape‐maintained behavior. Considering that food refusal behavior has been generally described as avoidant behavior, the present study aimed to evaluate the role of choice between nonpreferred foods on the food consumption and problematic mealtime behavior of two children with food selectivity. Each participant was allowed to choose between four nonpreferred foods in the choice condition and was not allowed to choose in the no‐choice condition. Further, the role of choice as an antecedent manipulation in mediating extinction‐induced responding was evaluated when choice alone was demonstrated to be ineffective in increasing consumption and a nonremoval of the spoon procedure was introduced. Results indicated that providing choices was effective in increasing the food consumption of one participant and was advantageous in decreasing emotional responding when a nonremoval of the spoon procedure was introduced for the second participant. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
ARTIFICIAL feeding; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR therapy; DECISION making; FOOD preferences
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.1423