Feedback: Use and Possible Behavioral Functions

Duncan, Phillip K.; Bruwelheide, Laurence Raymon

doi:10.1300/j075v07n03_06

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“…Feedback as a term can describe a vast array of procedures and methods (Ford, 1980 (Duncan & Bruwelheide, 1986). A reinforcement function of feedback would be inferred if feedback is delivered following a performance and performance improves as a result (e.g., Prue & Fairbank, 1981).…”

Section: Performance Feedback and Rule-governed Behaviormentioning

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An Examination of the Effects of Feedback Accuracy on Academic Task Acquisition in Analogue Settings

Hirst

Reed

2014

Psychol Rec

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Performance feedback is a common procedure used in a variety of settings to change behavior. Although reviews of the literature have identified a number of dimensions of performance feedback that are predictive of effectiveness, little research has examined the influence of inaccurate feedback on behavior. The purpose of the present study was to examine both the short-and long-term effects of inaccurate feedback on the acquisition of match-to-sample tasks.The first study adopted a translational, human operant paradigm to evaluate the effects under highly-controlled conditions. Undergraduate students were presented an arbitrary match-tosample task on a computer. Feedback accuracy was manipulated in an initial phase followed by a condition where only accurate feedback was provided. The second study extended these findings to a more applied setting and population. The results of both studies demonstrated that exposure to inaccurate feedback resulted in the failure to acquire the tasks. Furthermore, a carryover effect was obtained represented by a delay to acquisition following the improvement of feedback accuracy. The behavioral processes behind the results obtained are interpreted through a synthesis of literatures on performance feedback, fidelity, and instructional control. Implications for educational and organizational settings are suggested.

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Section: Performance Feedback and Rule-governed Behaviormentioning

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“…Aside from a discriminatory function, a second antecedent function that feedback may serve is as an establishing operation. Duncan and Bruwelheide (1986) propose that feedback may alter the value of behaviors and outcomes by providing a description of a relation to obtaining other reinforcers.…”

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An Examination of the Effects of Feedback Accuracy on Academic Task Acquisition in Analogue Settings

Hirst

Reed

2014

Psychol Rec

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“…Supervisory feedback has been preferred over feedback from other sources, because supervisory feedback of course informs the supervisor of employee performance, and because supervisors control many of the consequences that are important to employees (Daniels, 1989). It has been suggested that supervisory feedback may have direct reinforcing consequences (Komaki et al, 1978), may function as an establishing operation, or have reinforcing consequences because of an association with other reinforcers (Agnew 1998;Duncan, & Bruwelheide, 1985). If the supervisor controls reinforcers such as work scheduling, raises and promotions, positive supervisory feedback can become effective as a conditioned reinforcer.…”

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O Uso De Feedback Do Supervisor E Feedback Afixado Publicamente Para Aumentar a Segurança Em Um Ambiente De Fábrica

Austin

Helton

Sigurðsson

2016

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RESUMOO estudo empregou um delineamento de linha de base entre comportamentos para avaliar os efeitos de feedback do supervisor sobre comportamentos relevantes, relacionados com segurança, em uma fábrica de manufaturas. Durante a linha de base, a segurança do depósito atingiu uma média de 35,3% para os comportamentos e condições do Checklist 1, e 35,0% para comportamentos e condições do Checklist 2. Quando o feedback verbal do supervisor foi implementado, a média da segurança do depósito aumentou para 50,6% para o Checklist 1 e para 75,7% para o Checklist 2. Quando o feedback do supervisor passou a ser afixado como parte do programa de intervenção, a média da segurança do trabalho subiu ainda mais, chegando a 58,0% para a Checklist 1 e 83,3% para a Checklist 2. Esses resultados são consistentes com descobertas anteriores de que o feedback sobre o desempenho pode aumentar comportamentos críticos na situação de trabalho.Palavras-chave: saúde, prevenção de danos físicos, segurança baseada no comportamento, feedback, acidentes.ABSTRACT The effects of safety-related and behaviorally relevant verbal and posted feedback from supervisors in a manufacturing plant were evaluated using a multiple baseline across behaviors design. During baseline, plant safety averaged 35.3% for the behaviors and conditions on Checklist 1, and 35.0% for the behaviors and conditions on Checklist 2. When verbal supervisory feedback was implemented, the plant safety average increased to 50.6% for Checklist 1, and 75.7% for Checklist 2. When posted supervisory feedback was added to the intervention package, the plant safety average further increased to 58.0% for Checklist 1, and 83.3% for Checklist 2. These results are consistent with previous findings that performance feedback can increase critical work behaviors.

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“…A number of authors have pointed out that feedback procedures are implemented in a manner that is analogous to reinforcement (or punishment) procedures (e.g., Duncan andBruwelheide 1985-1986;Peterson 1982). Most notably, under both feedback and operant procedures, consequences of responding are contingent on properties of responding.…”

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“…In general, control system models hold that feedback stimuli provide information about current performance that is compared by the learner with preestablished goals or other standards for performance. Discrepancies result in adjustment of performance or goals (for a description of this model, see Duncan andBruwelheide 1985-1986). Under control system models, a priori establishment of feedback stimulus effectiveness would amount to determining that stimuli accurately indicate the relation between current behavior and performance goals or standards.…”

Section: A Comparison Of Feedback With Reinforcement and Punishment Pmentioning

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An Analysis of Feedback from a Behavior Analytic Perspective

Mangiapanello

Hemmes

2015

BEHAV ANALYST

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The present paper presents a systematic analysis from a behavior analytic perspective of procedures termed feedback. Although feedback procedures are widely reported in the discipline of psychology, including in the field of behavior analysis, feedback is neither consistently defined nor analyzed. Feedback is frequently treated as a principle of behavior; however, its effects are rarely analyzed in terms of well-established principles of learning and behavior analysis. On the assumption that effectiveness of feedback procedures would be enhanced when their use is informed by these principles, we sought to provide a conceptually systematic account of feedback effects in terms of operant conditioning principles. In the first comprehensive review of this type, we compare feedback procedures with those of well-defined operant procedures. We also compare the functional relations that have been observed between parameters of consequence delivery and behavior under both feedback and operant procedures. The similarities observed in the preceding analyses suggest that processes revealed in operant conditioning procedures are sufficient to explain the phenomena observed in studies on feedback.

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Feedback: Use and Possible Behavioral Functions

Cited by 41 publications

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An Examination of the Effects of Feedback Accuracy on Academic Task Acquisition in Analogue Settings

An Examination of the Effects of Feedback Accuracy on Academic Task Acquisition in Analogue Settings

O Uso De Feedback Do Supervisor E Feedback Afixado Publicamente Para Aumentar a Segurança Em Um Ambiente De Fábrica

An Analysis of Feedback from a Behavior Analytic Perspective

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