Let's Go to the Toy Store!: Current Trends in Reinforcer Determination and Efficacy Evaluation belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. In Let's Go to the Toy Store: Current Trends in Reinforcer Determination and Efficacy Evaluation, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Our field has a long and rich history of evaluating preferences for individuals with limited verbal and choice-making repertoires using the single, paired, or multi-item preference assessment. Some, but not all, of this preference assessment history has been focused on the evaluation of edible items as potential reinforcers. As a primary reinforcer, edible items are undeniably powerful and may displace other effective reinforcers in preference assessments (DeLeon et al., 1997). This may inadvertently reduce the pool of known preferred items, contributing to satiation. Strategies for expanding the putative reinforcer pool beyond edible items could include evaluating the efficacy of displaced leisure items and expanding the potential leisure item reinforcer pool by extrapolating hypothesized reinforcers based on preference assessments results. Each of these approaches will be examined via experimental evaluation in the current studies, replicating and expanding previous preference assessment research (i.e., Ciccone et al., 2015; Conine & Vollmer, 2019). Additionally, clinicians have many decisions to make regarding the use of reinforcement, including the appropriateness of its use for varying settings, populations, and behavioral targets; however, limited information is available on the prevalence of edible, leisure, and social reinforcement use in clinical practice. Preliminary findings of a survey of clinicians on their reinforcement practices will also be discussed.
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
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Dr. Diana Parry-Cruwys, PhD, BCBA-D®, LABA, has over 15 years of experience working with children with autism and related disabilities. She worked and trained at the New England Center for Children. She is currently an associate professor in the Master of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis program at Regis College and the practicum coordinator. She is the co-director of the Regis Autism Center. Her research interests include early intensive behavioral intervention, joint attention, and play. She has presented research at numerous national conferences and is published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and Research in Developmental Disabilities. She is on the editorial board of Behavioral Interventions.
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