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A Translational Examination Of Alternative-Response Discrimination Training And Resurgence, Kaitlyn O. Browning
A Translational Examination Of Alternative-Response Discrimination Training And Resurgence, Kaitlyn O. Browning
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders often engage in severe forms of problem behavior. Reward-based behavioral interventions are highly effective at reducing levels of problem behavior and teaching more appropriate and adaptive alternative behaviors. Despite successful reduction in problem behavior during treatment, problem behaviors are susceptible to reoccurrence or relapse. Resurgence is a type of behavioral relapse that is particularly relevant to the treatment of problem behavior and may occur following the worsening of conditions of a more recently learned alternative behavior. That is, if the rewards that were used to teach the alternative behavior are removed …
A Temporal Information-Theoretic Model Of Suboptimal Choice, Paul J. Cunningham
A Temporal Information-Theoretic Model Of Suboptimal Choice, Paul J. Cunningham
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Humans and animals often make decisions not in their long-term best interest. In one example, called suboptimal choice, pigeons sacrifice food for food-predictive stimuli. The study of suboptimal choice can reveal insights into the role of reward-predictive stimuli in maladaptive decision-making that characterizes numerous behavioral disorders. However, there is currently little evidence that rats engage in suboptimal choice, thereby raising questions about the species-generality of suboptimal choice. According to the temporal information-theoretic model, developed in Chapter 2, suboptimal choice emerges when pigeons pay more attention to the bits of temporal information conveyed by food-predictive stimuli than the rate of food …