1. Assessment of the relative effects of attention and escape on noncompliance
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Rodriguez, Nicole M., Thompson, Rachel H., and Baynham, Tanya Y.
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Attention -- Observations ,Right to refuse treatment -- Observations ,Psychology and mental health - Abstract
The current study presents a method for assessing the relative effects of attention and escape on noncompliance in preschoolers. Attention and escape conditions were alternated in a multielement design, and a contingency reversal procedure, in which one test condition served as a control for the other, was used to demonstrate control. For all 3 participants, noncompliance was maintained, at least in part, by social attention. Functional analyses of noncompliance such as the one described here may be valuable for developing function-based treatments. Key words: compliance, functional analysis, noncompliance, preschoolers doi: 10.1901/jaba.2010.43-143
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- 2010