title: Assessment of the relative effects of attention and escape on noncompliance.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas, USA.
authors.forename: Nicole M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Rodriguez
authors.forename: Rachel H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Tanya Y
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Baynham
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004924:Escape Reaction; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology
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