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An Evaluation of the Consistency and Accuracy of Children Preferences for and Reinforcing Efficacy of Different Types of Attention across Different Adults.

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Title/Author:	An Evaluation of the Consistency and Accuracy of Children Preferences for and Reinforcing Efficacy of Different Types of Attention across Different Adults./
Author:	Pierce, Tiva .
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	48 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-09A.
Subject:	Special education. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27735539
ISBN:	9781392348932

An Evaluation of the Consistency and Accuracy of Children Preferences for and Reinforcing Efficacy of Different Types of Attention across Different Adults.
Pierce, Tiva .

An Evaluation of the Consistency and Accuracy of Children Preferences for and Reinforcing Efficacy of Different Types of Attention across Different Adults. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 48 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Attention has been used as a sort-of "catch-all" term often in behavior-analytic research to describe social interactions between two individuals (Allen, Hart, Buell, Harris & Wolf, 1964.) Previous researchers have also demonstrated that different topographies of attention (i.e., eye contact, praise, physical, conversation, and reprimands) affect an individual's responding differentially (e.g., Fisher et al., 1996), and some types of attention (i.e., praise, physical attention, and conversation) are more preferred and/or reinforcing than other types of attention (e.g., Clay, Samaha, Bloom, Bogoev, & Boyle, 2013.). However, in the current literature, the therapist or researcher has remained constant, and it is possible that the different ways in which attention is delivered may affect preference hierarchies and reinforcing efficacies. Therefore, the purpose of the current study is to determine if different types of attention are consistently preferred across different adults and if those preferences are consistent with the reinforcing efficacies both within and across adults. Results showed in general, different types of attention do act reinforcers. This has been shown in previous research and is shown in the results of the current study. These results include some conflicting conclusion as compared to previous research; however, these differences will hopefully lead to some additional research and more information about how to effectively use attention---in isolation---as reinforcers instead of as package with other tangible items such as edible or leisure items.

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An Evaluation of the Consistency and Accuracy of Children Preferences for and Reinforcing Efficacy of Different Types of Attention across Different Adults.
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