J. Northup et al., A PRELIMINARY-ANALYSIS OF INTERACTIVE EFFECTS BETWEEN COMMON CLASSROOM CONTINGENCIES AND METHYLPHENIDATE, Journal of applied behavior analysis, 30(1), 1997, pp. 121-125
To assess the drug-behavior interaction effects with an 8-year-old boy
with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, common classroom antec
edent (e.g., seating arrangement) and consequent (e.g., peer prompts)
stimuli were alternated within a school day while drug conditions (met
hylphenidate vs. placebo) were alternated across days. The results sug
gested that peer attention maintained disruptive behavior when methylp
henidate was absent but not when it was present.