Evaluation of a discrimination training procedure for establishing praise as a reinforcer
Erin L. Sainsbury,
Tina M. Sidener,
Catherine Taylor‐Santa
et al.
Abstract:We evaluated the effects of a discrimination training procedure for establishing praise as a reinforcer for three children with autism spectrum disorder. After establishing two praise words as discriminative stimuli and two nonsense words as S‐deltas, we evaluated whether the stimuli then functioned as reinforcers by presenting each stimulus as a consequence for a new response. The results demonstrated that previously neutral praise words functioned as reinforcers and nonsense words did not. As in previous stu… Show more
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