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May, Michael E. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
From an applied behavior-analytic perspective, aggression in people with intellectual disabilities is mostly maintained by social reinforcement consequences. However, nonsocial consequences have also been identified in functional assessments on aggression. Behaviors producing their own reinforcement have been labeled "automatic" or "nonsocial" in…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Brain, Rewards, Positive Reinforcement