The effect of economy type on reinforcer value

The generalisation of new language targets has been an elusive outcome for learners with severe disabilities. We analyse generalisation and generalisation failures by examining the influence of motivation and response competition, specifically within the context of communication targets serving a requesting function. Our examination includes a discussion of establishing operations (Michael, 1982), fluctuating reinforcer value, the emergence of communicative functions and forms, response competition, and response class phenomena. We end by offering a novel conceptualisation of generalisation with implications for clinical application.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Augmented reinforcer value and accelerated habit formation after repeated amphetamine treatment.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.1066137.519113 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Kent Berridge

Keyword(s):

Habit Formation ◽

Amphetamine Treatment ◽

Reinforcer Value

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Striatum-dependent habits are insensitive to both increases and decreases in reinforcer value in mice

European Journal of Neuroscience ◽

10.1111/ejn.12106 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 37 (6) ◽

pp. 1012-1021 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Jennifer J. Quinn ◽

Christopher Pittenger ◽

Anni S. Lee ◽

Jamie L. Pierson ◽

Jane R. Taylor

Keyword(s):

Reinforcer Value

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B59 AUGMENTED REINFORCER VALUE AND ACCELERATED HABIT FORMATION AFTER AMPHETAMINE SENSITIZATION

Behavioural Pharmacology ◽

10.1097/00008877-200509001-00264 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 16 (Supplement 1) ◽

pp. S84 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

R.E. Nordquist ◽

P. Voorn ◽

J.G. de Mooij-van Malsen ◽

R.N.J.M.A. Joosten ◽

C.M.A. Pennartz ◽

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Keyword(s):

Habit Formation ◽

Amphetamine Sensitization ◽

Reinforcer Value

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Basic Research on the Behavioral Economics of Reinforcer Value

Autism Service Delivery - Autism and Child Psychopathology Series ◽

10.1007/978-1-4939-2656-5_10 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 279-306 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Derek D. Reed ◽

Brent A. Kaplan ◽

Amel Becirevic

Keyword(s):

Behavioral Economics ◽

Basic Research ◽

Reinforcer Value

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Dynamic changes in reinforcer value: Some misconceptions and why you should care.

The Behavior Analyst Today ◽

10.1037/h0099952 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 341-349

Author(s):

Frances K. McSweeney ◽

Eric S. Murphy ◽

Benjamin P. Kowal

Keyword(s):

Dynamic Changes ◽

Reinforcer Value

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Matching to Reinforcer Value: Human Concurrent Variable-Interval Performance

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ◽

10.1080/14640748008401845 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 557-570 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Michael J. Cliffe ◽

Stephen J. Parry

Keyword(s):

Human Subject ◽

Variable Interval ◽

Sexual Stimulus ◽

Interval Variable ◽

Sexual Stimuli ◽

Stimulus Classes ◽

The Subject ◽

Reinforcer Value

A male paedophile offender chose between pairs of sexual stimulus classes in a two-operandum procedure with reinforcement arranged according to concurrent variable-interval variable-interval schedules. Condition 1 involved choice between slides of women and slides of men; condition 2, slides of men vs. slides of children; and condition 3, slides of women vs. slides of children. On the assumption that the subject matched his ratios of responses and times on the two operanda to reinforcer value, estimates were obtained from the data in conditions 1 and 2 of the values of slides of women and of children relative to slides of men. These yielded predictions of the relative allocations of responses and of time in condition 3. The predicted and obtained outcomes were similar. The results support the use of matching-based scaling of reinforcer values in the prediction of choice between qualitatively different reinforcers and extend the application to a human subject, the two-operandum procedure, and sexual stimuli.

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