Effects of escape to alone versus escape to enriched environments on adaptive and aberrant behavior.
Escape-maintained aberrant behavior may be influenced by two outcomes: (a) a break from the activity and (b) subsequent access to preferred activities. To assess this hypothesis, a treatment was developed that analyzed response allocation across two break options: break alone and break with access to preferred social activities. The break with preferred activities decreased aberrant behavior and increased appropriate behavior.
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The University of Iowa, USA.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D005108:Extinction, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012934:Social Isolation / Q000523:psychology*