Author : Jolene Rachel Sy
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ISBN 13 :
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Book Synopsis Evaluations of Delayed Reinforcement in Children with Developmental Disabilities by : Jolene Rachel Sy
Download or read book Evaluations of Delayed Reinforcement in Children with Developmental Disabilities written by Jolene Rachel Sy and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition, we found that 20-, 30-, and 40-s delays to reinforcement lead to discrimination acquisition for the majority of subjects. The availability of identical responses during the delay did not prevent response maintenance for 2 out of 3 subjects or discrimination acquisition for 2 out of 3 subjects. For 1 out of 2 subjects, discrimination acquisition was hindered when the number of responses targeted during each session was increased. These results suggest that delayed reinforcement can produce acquisition and maintenance under specific conditions. In addition, we found that longer intertrial intervals (time between delivery of a reinforcer and the presentation of the next trial) most likely do not account for cases in which discrimination acquisition fails to occur under conditions of delayed reinforcement.