Treatment Integrity Failures during Timeout from Play.
Behav Modif
; 45(6): 988-1010, 2021 11.
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| ID: mdl-32539435
ABSTRACT
Timeout is an effective behavior-reduction strategy with considerable generality. However, little is known about how timeout is implemented under natural conditions, or how errors in implementation impact effectiveness. During Experiment 1, we observed teachers implementing timeout during play to evaluate how frequently the teachers implemented timeout following target behavior (omission errors) and other behaviors (commission errors) for four children. Teachers rarely implemented timeout; thus, omission errors were frequent, but commission errors rarely occurred. During Experiment 2, we used a reversal design to compare timeout implemented with 0% omission integrity, 100% integrity, and the level of omission integrity observed to occur during Experiment 1 for two of the participants. Timeout implemented with reduced-integrity decreased problem behavior relative to baseline, suggesting that infrequent teacher implementation of timeout may have been sufficient to reduce problem behavior.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Base de données:
MEDLINE
Sujet principal:
Conditionnement opérant
Limites:
Child
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Humans
Langue:
En
Journal:
Behav Modif
Année:
2021
Type de document:
Article
Pays d'affiliation:
États-Unis d'Amérique