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- Title
Multiple-stimulus preference assessments: a comparison of free-operant and restricted-operant formats.
- Authors
Ortiz, Karen R.; Carr, James E.
- Abstract
We compared free-operant and restricted-operant multiple-stimulus preference assessments with three children diagnosed with mental retardation. The methods produced comparable results, although the free-operant assessment identified fewer potential reinforcers than the restricted-operant assessment. The highest- and lowest-ranked stimuli from both methods were subsequently evaluated in a concurrent-operants reinforcer assessment. All participants engaged in behavior that resulted in access to the highest-ranked stimuli the majority of the time, thus validating both preference assessment methods as effective in identifying reinforcers. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
INTELLECTUAL disabilities; CHILD psychopathology; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; MENTAL illness risk factors; OPERANT behavior
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2000, Vol 15, Issue 4, p345
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/1099-078X(200010/12)15:4<345::AID-BIN69>3.0.CO;2-K