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Meg Lipper; Leif K. Albright; Kenneth Reeve; Sharon Reeve; April Kisamore; Antonios Varelas – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2024
The present study evaluated the use of computerized equivalence-based instruction (EBI) to teach classes representing schedules of reinforcement to staff members. Four, 5-member classes representing fixed ratio, fixed interval, variable ratio, and variable interval schedules of reinforcement were taught. The participants were 16 staff members…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Faculty Development, Intervals, Reinforcement
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Lionello-DeNolf, Karen; Dube, William V. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
Training context can influence resistance to disruption under differing reinforcement schedules. With nonhumans, when relatively lean and rich reinforcement schedules are experienced in the context of a multiple schedule, greater resistance is found in the rich than the lean component, as described by behavioral momentum theory. By contrast, when…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Reinforcement, Mental Retardation, Context Effect