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The Assessment of Preference for Qualitatively Different Reinforcers in Persons with Developmental and Learning Disabilities: A Comparison of Value Using Behavioral Economic and Standard Preference Assessment Procedures 

Bredthauer, Jennifer (2009-07-23)
Standard preference assessment results may have limited generality when schedule requirements are increased, which may compromise treatment efficacy. While standard procedures can provide reliable preference ranks and ...

Contriving Establishing Operations: Responses of Individuals With Developmental Disabilities During Learning Task 

Zayac, Ryan (2005-12-15)
The field of applied behavior analysis has utilized the ability to capture and contrive establishing operations in treating aberrant behavior in individuals with developmental disabilities. However, research on the use of ...

Direct Instruction Reading: Effects of the Reading Mastery Plus - Level K Program on Preschool Children with Developmental Delays 

Zayac, Ryan (2008-08-15)
Despite the success of Direct Instruction (DI) programs in teaching a variety of individuals how to read, there has been little research on the use of DI for young children with developmental delays. The purpose of the ...

Drug Effects on Behavior in Transition: Does Context Matter? 

Banna, Kelly (2007-12-15)
The generalized matching law has been used extensively to characterize choice under concurrent schedules of reinforcement. This model uses data obtained during periods of stable responding to describe response allocation ...

The percentile IRT schedule: High rate behavior as a tool for examining the toxic motor effects of methylmercury 

Donlin, Wendy (2005-05-15)
Methylmercury exposure has become a topic of interest in both the toxicology literature and among the general media within the last decade. Concern about methylmercury’s toxicity has grown with the discovery that ...

A Systematic Evaluation of Variables Underlying Response Effort Manipulations 

Polick, Amy (2008-12-15)
A number of studies have investigated the effects of manipulating the physical effort required for an individual to emit a response. This research overwhelmingly shows that as force requirements increase, response rates ...

Variables Influencing Stimulus Overselectivity In Normally Developing Children 

Smith, Kimberley (2005-12-15)
Stimulus overselectivity is a type of responding observed in children and adults with autism spectrum disorders and mental retardation. It involves responding that is controlled by a small, often irrelevant portion of a ...

WELDED WIRE SHEAR REINFORCEMENT FOR PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGE GIRDERS 

Johnston, James (2022-11-28)
Welded wire reinforcement (WWR) is a steel product that is prefabricated into welded sheets. While this product is seeing use as shear reinforcement in precast concrete bridge girders for some states, other states, such ...