EVALUATING THE REINFORCING EFFECTS OF CHOICE IN COMPARISON TO REINFORCEMENT RATE

Citation
Rh. Thompson et al., EVALUATING THE REINFORCING EFFECTS OF CHOICE IN COMPARISON TO REINFORCEMENT RATE, Research in developmental disabilities, 19(2), 1998, pp. 181-187
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Rehabilitation
ISSN journal
08914222
Volume
19
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
181 - 187
Database
ISI
SICI code
0891-4222(1998)19:2<181:ETREOC>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
A concurrent-operants arrangement was used to evaluate a boy's prefere nce for a choice condition (in which he chose the reinforcement) over a no-choice condition (in which the therapist selected the reinforceme nt for him) when (a) these conditions produced equal rates of reinforc ement and (b) lower-rates of reinforcement were associated with the ch oice condition. The boy preferred the choice condition even when it re sulted in a much less favourable rate of reinforcement than the no-cho ice condition (up to 4000% less). (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd.