title: The effects of pairing non-preferred staff with preferred stimuli on increasing the reinforcing value of non-preferred staff attention.
abstract: This two-part study conducted preference assessments for staff members in three adults with intellectual disabilities and then paired attention from non-preferred staff with preferred stimuli. All three participants reliably identified preferred and non-preferred staff in both verbal and pictorial preference assessments, they emitted a higher rate responses during progressive ratio schedules for attention from preferred than from non-preferred staff and emitted more approach responses to preferred than non-preferred staff. When attention from non-preferred staff was paired with preferred stimuli, break points and the rate of approaches to non-preferred staff systematically increased as a function of stimulus pairings. The paper discusses the implications of preparing staff to work with people with intellectual disabilities.
authors: Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States.
authors: Jared
authors: J
authors: Jerome
authors: Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States. Electronic address: psturmey@gmail.com.
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Sturmey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D057240:Patient Preference / Q000523:psychology*; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology
keywords: Approach responses; PR schedules; Preference assessments; Stimulus pairing