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Leaf, Justin B.; Oppenheim-Leaf, Misty L.; Leaf, Ronald; Courtemanche, Andrea B.; Taubman, Mitchell; McEachin, John; Sheldon, Jan B.; Sherman, James A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
Children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may play with limited objects or toys, making it difficult for teachers to identify reinforcers to use in teaching new skills. The goal of this study was to alter children's preferences from highly preferred toys to toys that were originally less preferred using an observational pairing procedure.…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Reinforcement, Observational Learning, Autism
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Greer, R. Douglas; Singer-Dudek, Jessica – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
We report an experiment in which observations of peers by six 3-5-year-old participants under specific conditions functioned to convert a small plastic disc or, for one participant, a small piece of string, from a nonreinforcer to a reinforcer. Prior to the observational procedure, we compared each participant's responding on (a) previously…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Reinforcement, Observation, Young Children