Physical Activity Research: Antecedent Exercise, Self-monitoring, and Competition belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Physical Activity Research: Antecedent Exercise, Self-monitoring, and Competition, 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 →In this presentation, three research studies on the topic of physical activity will be reviewed. In the first study, an antecedent exercise intervention for increasing physical activity engagement and decreasing automatically reinforced challenging behavior will be described. In this study, systematic preference assessments were conducted to identify physical activity tasks associated with high levels of engagement to include during intervention. In addition, three-component multiple schedules were used to evaluate preintervention, intervention, and postintervention effects of physical activity engagement. In the second study, a component analysis of a self-monitoring intervention for increasing physical activity in three individuals with autism will be reviewed. This study included a comprehensive training to teach self-monitoring and an evaluation of the independent and combined effects of self-monitoring and reinforcement. In the third study, an evaluation of a competition using a fitness tracker (i.e., the Apple watch) for increasing physical activity engagement of staff who worked as teachers for individuals with autism will be reviewed. Details of the competition, when evaluated alone and in combination with additional intervention components that may enhance competition outcomes, will be discussed.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
Dr. Eileen Roscoe received her PhD in Behavior Analysis from the University of Florida under the mentorship of Dr. Brian Iwata. She currently serves as the Director of Behavior Analytic research at the New England Center for Children in Boston, MA. She teaches courses on Behavioral Assessment and Intervention and supervises Masters and PhD students’ research for the Applied Behavior Analysis program at Western New England University. She has published articles on a variety of topics, including preference and reinforcer assessments, functional analysis refinements, and treatment of problem behavior. More recently, she has initiated research on increasing engagement in leisure and physical activities. She has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) and as a board member for the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. She currently serves on the editorial boards for JABA and Behavior Interventions. She was a recipient of the B.F. Skinner Young Researcher award from Division 25 of the American Psychological Association.
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