Individualized sampling parameters for behavioral observations: enhancing the predictive validity of competing stimulus assessments

DeLeon, Iser G.; Toole, Lisa M.; Gutshall, Katharine A.; Bowman, Lynn G.

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2004.09.004

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“…Research on CSAs generally have shown that briefly exposing individuals to stimuli and sampling their behavior can predict outcomes obtained over extended analyses (see DeLeon, Toole, Gutshall, & Bowman, 2005). These assessment procedures enable clinicians to examine how various stimuli affect behavior.…”

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Evaluation of Response Blocking and Re-Presentation in a Competing Stimulus Assessment

Jennett

Jann

Hagopian

2011

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

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Competing stimulus assessments (CSA) have been used to identify stimuli that are associated with reduced levels of problem behavior, presumably as a function of reinforcer competition. Following a standard CSA in which stimuli simply were made available, 2 more CSAs were conducted with additional components designed to enhance reinforcer competition: re-presentation of stimuli and response blocking for self-injury. The results obtained from each CSA were validated in an extended treatment analysis. The study illustrates how the effects of additional components designed to enhance reinforcer competition can be evaluated efficiently in the context of a CSA.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Evaluation of Response Blocking and Re-Presentation in a Competing Stimulus Assessment

Jennett

Jann

Hagopian

2011

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

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“…We did not identify a relation between the CSA's predictive validity and participant characteristics or CSA method (e.g., trial duration, number of series conducted). Results of one study (DeLeon, Toole, et al, 2005) tentatively suggested that competing stimuli identified during CSAs in which the trial durations were determined by the base rate of PB maintained lower rates of PB during extended analyses better than competing stimuli identified during shorter trials. Though we did not identify this effect, the reviewed datasets were limited to relatively high-rate PB.…”

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“…Only two of the reviewed studies (DeLeon, Toole, et al, 2005;Jennett et al, 2011) described and tested refinements to CSA procedures. The majority of papers focused on subsequent treatment of PB using competing stimuli identified in the CSA.…”

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“…The total number of participants in each included study was recorded, as was their demographic information (name, sex, age). The topographies and function of each participant's PB were documented as described by the 4 An exception was made for the datasets of James D. and Read (DeLeon, Toole et al, 2005), for which an operational definition and IOA for engagement were not provided, yet all other dependent variables were defined and reliable. No other datasets were excluded based on this standard alone.…”

Section: Coding Individual Participant Data Participant Characteristicsmentioning

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Competing stimulus assessments: A systematic review

Haddock

Hagopian

2020

J of App Behav Analysis

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The current review summarizes the literature on competing stimulus assessments (CSAs). CSAs are pretreatment assessments designed to systematically identify stimuli that reduce problem behavior (PB), ostensibly through reinforcer competition or substitution. We report on the participant characteristics, outcomes, and predictive validity of published CSAs that included (a) no-stimulus control trial(s), (b) test trials during which each stimulus was available singly and noncontingently, and (c) measurement of PB and stimulus engagement or contact. Results showed that CSAs have broad utility across a variety of topographies and functions of PB. In the majority of CSA applications for which extended analyses, or validations, were performed, stimuli shown to reduce PB during the CSA produced similar reductions during extended analysis. This was the case regardless of topography or function of PB, or whether the stimuli were assumed to be "matched" to the stimulation thought to be produced by PB. Implications for future research are discussed.

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“…Simmons, Smith, & Kliethermes, 2003). This presents a difficulty because the therapeutic effects of a competing stimulus may vary greatly from one session to the next (DeLeon, Toole, Gutshall, & Bowman, 2005). Demonstrating momentum effects depends on a precise quantification of reinforcement rates, but precise quantification of reinforcement rates for automatically reinforced behavior is difficult because the exact nature of the reinforcer cannot be discerned.…”

Section: Implications Of Behavioral Momentum Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%