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Podlesnik, Christopher A.; Bai, John Y. H.; Elliffe, Douglas – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
Reinforcing an alternative response in the same context as a target response reduces the rate of occurrence but increases the persistence of that target response. Applied researchers who use such techniques to decrease the rate of a target problem behavior risk inadvertently increasing the persistence of the same problem behavior. Behavioral…
Descriptors: Persistence, Behavior Problems, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning
Bullock, Christopher E.; Myers, Todd M. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
Acquisition and maintenance of touch-screen responding was examined in naive cynomolgus monkeys ("Macaca fascicularis") under automaintenance and classical conditioning arrangements. In the first condition of Experiment 1, we compared acquisition of screen touching to a randomly positioned stimulus (a gray square) that was either stationary or…
Descriptors: Primatology, Classical Conditioning, Stimuli, Tactual Perception
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Dougher, Michael J.; Hamilton, Derek; Fink, Brandi; Harrington, Jennifer – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
In three experiments, match-to-sample procedures were used with undergraduates to establish arbitrary relational functions for three abstract visual stimuli. In the presence of samples A, B, and C, participants were trained to select the smallest, middle, and largest member, respectively, of a series of three-comparison arrays. In Experiment 1,…
Descriptors: Stimulus Generalization, Association (Psychology), Visual Stimuli, Classical Conditioning
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Tonneau, Francois; Arreola, Fara; Martinez, Alma Gabriela – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
In studies of function transformation, participants initially are taught to match stimuli in the presence of a contextual cue, X; the stimuli to be matched bear some formal relation to each other, for example, a relation of opposition or difference. In a second phase, the participants are taught to match arbitrary stimuli (say, A and B) in the…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Cues, Objective Tests, Classical Conditioning