{"title":"Generalized Verbal Behavior Increases Following a Speaker Immersion Intervention.","authors":"Aparna Naresh, Mary K Short, Daniel M Fienup","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00133-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-020-00133-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A goal of behavior-analytic interventions is to produce behavior that is maintained under naturalistic conditions. In this experiment, we studied the effects of a speaker immersion protocol (SIP) on the number of speaker responses (tacts and mands) emitted by 3 preschool students under naturalistic, not directly targeted, conditions. During the SIP, the researchers provided 100 daily opportunities for the participants to emit mands using the target mand form by contriving establishing operations (EOs) throughout the school day. The effects of the intervention were evaluated using a multiple-probe design by measuring target mands during EO probe sessions and the number of mands and tacts emitted during noninstructional-setting probe sessions. The researchers found that the SIP produced increases in both targeted and generalized verbal behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 2","pages":"308-317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-020-00133-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38767745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bryant C Silbaugh, Samantha Swinnea, Terry S Falcomata
{"title":"Replication and Extension of the Effects of Lag Schedules on Mand Variability and Challenging Behavior During Functional Communication Training.","authors":"Bryant C Silbaugh, Samantha Swinnea, Terry S Falcomata","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00126-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-020-00126-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>More is known about how to reduce challenging behavior with functional communication training (FCT) than how to mitigate its resurgence during or following a course of treatment. Research suggests reinforcing mand variability during FCT may mitigate the resurgence of challenging behavior, but validated procedures for reinforcing mand variability are limited and poorly understood. Lag schedules can reinforce variability in verbal behavior such as manding in individuals with autism, but studies have been largely limited to nonvocal mand modalities. Therefore, in the current study, we further evaluated the effects of FCT with lag schedules on vocal mand variability and challenging behavior in children with autism. The results suggest lag schedules alone or in combination with response prompt-fading strategies during FCT can increase mand variability and expand mand response classes but may fail to produce clinically significant reductions in challenging behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 1","pages":"49-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7343690/pdf/40616_2020_Article_126.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38190238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Barcelos Nomicos, Kenneth W Jacobs, Matthew L Locey
{"title":"The Effects of Obligatory and Preferential Frames on Delay Discounting.","authors":"Laura Barcelos Nomicos, Kenneth W Jacobs, Matthew L Locey","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00127-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-020-00127-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human decision making is partly determined by the verbal stimuli involved in a choice. Verbal stimuli that may be particularly relevant to human decision making are the words <i>should</i> and <i>like</i>, whereby <i>should</i> is presumably associated with what one ought to choose, and <i>like</i> is presumably associated with what one prefers to choose. The current study examined the potential effects of <i>should</i> and <i>like</i> on decisions in a monetary delay-discounting task. Eighty-three participants were recruited from Amazon's Mechanical Turk and were randomly assigned to a sequence of 2 conditions-<i>should</i> and <i>like</i>-in a repeated-measures experimental design. Based on condition assignment, the questions \"Which should you choose?\" and \"Which would you like to choose?\" appeared above each monetary option and its respective delay. Overall, participants demonstrated significantly lower levels of discounting in the <i>should</i> condition when compared to the <i>like</i> condition. However, this effect was much less consistent for participants exposed to the <i>should</i> condition prior to the <i>like</i> condition. The results of the current investigation indicate that the use of the words <i>should</i> and <i>like</i> constitutes separate classes of verbal stimuli that we refer to as obligatory and preferential frames. The effect of obligatory and preferential frames on delay discounting may be relevant to the prediction and control of decision making in social contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 1","pages":"74-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-020-00127-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38190239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tom Cariveau, Halley Robbins, Catia Cividini-Motta, Caitlin Delfs
{"title":"Citation Analysis of <i>The Analysis of Verbal Behavior</i> (2008-2018).","authors":"Tom Cariveau, Halley Robbins, Catia Cividini-Motta, Caitlin Delfs","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00128-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-020-00128-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent articles by the editorial board of <i>The Analysis of Verbal Behavior</i> (TAVB) include calls for greater integration, collaboration, and inclusion. In so doing, it may be helpful to consider TAVB's current reach. Previously, Petursdottir, Peterson, and Peters (<i>The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 25</i>, 109-121, 2009) described the number of citations of articles published in TAVB from 1983 to 2007. The authors found that the greatest number of references to TAVB were self-citations, followed predominantly by other behavior-analytic outlets, such as the <i>Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis</i>. Here, we replicate and extend the work of Petursdottir et al. (<i>The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 25</i>, 109-121, 2009) by conducting a citation analysis of references included in TAVB publications from 2008 to 2018 and also report citations by these venues to TAVB. This citation analysis allows for a more recent review of those outlets that articles published in TAVB commonly reference and those that cite TAVB. Generally, self-citations predominated, with articles published in TAVB commonly referencing books and chapters. The implications of these practices on the impact of TAVB and suggestions for moving forward are considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 1","pages":"87-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7343678/pdf/40616_2020_Article_128.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38190240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jordan Belisle, Dana Paliliunas, Taylor Lauer, Annalise Giamanco, Breanna Lee, Elana Sickman
{"title":"Derived Relational Responding and Transformations of Function in Children: A Review of Applied Behavior-Analytic Journals.","authors":"Jordan Belisle, Dana Paliliunas, Taylor Lauer, Annalise Giamanco, Breanna Lee, Elana Sickman","doi":"10.1007/s40616-019-00123-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-019-00123-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Theoretical extensions of Skinner's verbal behavior that emphasize derived relational responding (stimulus equivalence, relational frame theory, and bidirectional naming) can improve the complexity and scope of applied behavior-analytic training models with children. We evaluated the prevalence and content of empirical research on derived relational responding in children within 8 major applied behavior-analytic journals. We identified 123 empirical articles that met all inclusion criteria (i.e., they demonstrated derived relational responding in children). Whereas prior citation analyses have shown higher rates of research with adult participants, considerable research within these journals has involved child participants. In addition, 55% of the research targeted socially relevant or culturally established verbal relations, rather than culturally arbitrary relations (e.g., unknown symbols, consonant-vowel-consonant combinations) that are unlikely to affect real-world behavior. Generalization and transformation tests were also present in 47% of articles. We also conducted a content analysis of all articles that contained culturally relevant relations and demonstrated generalization or transformation of stimulus function (21% of all articles, <i>N</i> = 26); we argue that studies that meet these criteria are likely to be the most immediately impactful for learners. Results suggest that future research is needed to evaluate relational frames other than coordination (e.g., distinction, opposition), as well as to extend considerably the complexity of target relational classes and transformations of stimulus function with children.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 1","pages":"115-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7343693/pdf/40616_2019_Article_123.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38184397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tyler S Glassford, Alyssa N Wilson, Vanshika Gupta
{"title":"Risky Business: Increasing Risky Betting Through Rule-Governed Behavior.","authors":"Tyler S Glassford, Alyssa N Wilson, Vanshika Gupta","doi":"10.1007/s40616-020-00125-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-020-00125-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study replicated and extended previous research by exploring the extent to which rules altered participants' engagement in risky betting in an electronic blackjack game. A multiple-baseline across-participants design with predetermined phase changes was used to assess 4 recreational gamblers' betting patterns in blackjack across 3 phases. During baseline, participants played blackjack with no exposure to rules. In the faulty rules phase, researchers gave participants a rule that suggested larger payouts would occur if gamblers played let-it-ride bets. Let-it-ride bets were placed after a winning hand and required participants to wager their entire winnings on the next hand. During the correct rules phase, researchers gave participants a rule that suggested that the let-it-ride bets did not result in larger payouts. Data on let-it-ride bets across each minute of play were collected. The results of the study demonstrated that the frequency of risky bets increased when participants were exposed to the incorrect rule. Following participants' exposure to correct rules, risky bets decreased, but most participants did not return to baseline rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 1","pages":"146-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-020-00125-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38184398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Justin B Leaf, Joseph H Cihon, Julia L Ferguson, Christine M Milne, Ronald Leaf, John McEachin
{"title":"Comparing Error Correction to Errorless Learning: A Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Justin B Leaf, Joseph H Cihon, Julia L Ferguson, Christine M Milne, Ronald Leaf, John McEachin","doi":"10.1007/s40616-019-00124-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-019-00124-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Errorless learning and error correction procedures are commonly used when teaching tact relations to individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Research has demonstrated the effectiveness of both procedures, as well as compared them. The majority of these studies have been completed through the use of single-subject experimental designs. Evaluating both procedures using a group design may contribute to the literature and help disseminate research related to the behavioral science of language to a larger audience. The purpose of the present study was to compare an errorless learning procedure to an error correction procedure to teach tact relations to 28 individuals diagnosed with ASD through a randomized clinical trial. Several variables were assessed, including the number of stimulus sets with which participants reached the mastery criterion, responding during pre- and postprobes, responding during teaching, efficiency, and the presence of aberrant behavior. The results indicated that both procedures were effective, efficient, and unlikely to evoke aberrant behavior, despite participants in the error correction condition engaging in significantly more independent correct responses and independent incorrect responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7343685/pdf/40616_2019_Article_124.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38190236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Emergence of Bidirectional Naming Through Sequential Operant Instruction Following the Establishment of Conditioned Social Reinforcers.","authors":"Heidi Skorge Olaff, Per Holth","doi":"10.1007/s40616-019-00122-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-019-00122-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bidirectional naming (BiN) is the integration of speaker and listener responses, reinforced by social consequences. Unfortunately, these consequences often do not function as reinforcers for behavior in children with autism. Accordingly, the repertoire of BiN is also often limited in these children. Previous research has suggested that so-called multiple-exemplar instruction, a rotation between different speaker and listener operants, may be necessary to establish BiN. The present experiment aimed to investigate whether sequential operant instruction might also work as a successful intervention to improve BiN skills after the establishment of standard social reinforcers. Standard social reinforcers were identified and established through an operant-discrimination training procedure in 4 participating children with an autism spectrum diagnosis. In the present experiment, all participants showed increased BiN after sequential operant instruction with conditioned social reinforcers contingent on relevant operants. Two of 4 participants acquired BiN skills. Moreover, the remaining 2 participants scored within the mastery criterion on listener responses, and 1 of them also met the criterion on the tact probes. Essential characteristics of an intervention, as well as the role of the echoic in the emission of BiN, are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 1","pages":"21-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-019-00122-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38190237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher Bloh, Nicole Johnson, Cheyenne Strohl, Natalie Tidmarsh
{"title":"Increasing Communication for Students with Visual Impairments and Developmental Disabilities.","authors":"Christopher Bloh, Nicole Johnson, Cheyenne Strohl, Natalie Tidmarsh","doi":"10.1007/s40616-019-00121-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-019-00121-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 1","pages":"157-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-019-00121-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38184399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mirela Cengher, Nicholas H Ramazon, Craig W Strohmeier
{"title":"Using Extinction to Increase Behavior: Capitalizing on Extinction-Induced Response Variability to Establish Mands With Autoclitic Frames.","authors":"Mirela Cengher, Nicholas H Ramazon, Craig W Strohmeier","doi":"10.1007/s40616-019-00118-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-019-00118-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Members (behaviors) of a response class are equivalent in that they produce the same functional reinforcer. Oftentimes, some members of a response class occur at higher rates than others. This can be problematic when the members that occur at high rates are socially inappropriate (e.g., self-injury, aggression, or disruption). The participant in this study was a 16-year-old female diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder who demonstrated aggression, one-word mands, and mands with autoclitic frames. In a series of contingency reversals, we placed 2 behaviors on extinction (e.g., aggression and one-word mands), which resulted in extinction-induced variability. Capitalizing on extinction-induced variability, we reinforced a different behavior (e.g., mands with autoclitic frames). The results confirmed that (a) the rate of responding for each topography was a function of extinction-induced response variability and differential reinforcement and (b) all response topographies belonged to the same response class. These results provide empirical support for the use of extinction-induced variability to differentially increase the rate of socially appropriate behaviors while decreasing socially inappropriate behaviors that belong to the same response class.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"36 1","pages":"102-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-019-00118-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38190241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}