title: Were Increased Closed Seclusions the Result of a Reinforcer-Abolishing Effect?
abstract: In recent years, the motivating operation (MO) concept and the terms associated with it, including "reinforcer-abolishing effect" (Laraway, Snycerski, Michael, & Poling, 2003), have been widely used in the behavior-analytic literature (Laraway, Snycerski, Olson, Becker, & Poling, in press) and elsewhere (Lotfizadeh, Edwards, & Poling, 2013). MOs are changes in the environment that alter the reinforcing effectiveness of designated classes of stimuli, such as food or water.
authors.affiliation: Western Michigan University.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Poling