D. Houlihan et al., ASSESSING CHILDHOOD NONCOMPLIANCE - SUBTLE DIFFERENCES IN ONE-STEP COMMANDS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON RESPONSE TOPOGRAPHY, Child & family behavior therapy, 16(3), 1994, pp. 9-20
Those researching and assessing child noncompliance have generally fai
led to use commands that are standard and equivalent. Commands present
ed in research have generally been rationaly-derived and situation spe
cific. As a result, it is not clear what impact the commands alone may
be having on increasing compliance. This study compares compliance ra
tes to two sets of commands derived from the existing literature (easy
motor commands and difficult motor commands). The results show a clea
r difference in the natural rates of compliance to different types of
one-step commands. This suggests that even subtle differences in one-s
tep commands can have a significant impact on response topography.