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On The Role Of Task Preference And Work Removal For Identifying Escape Functions, Brian Patrick Long
On The Role Of Task Preference And Work Removal For Identifying Escape Functions, Brian Patrick Long
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Abstract
On the Role of Task Preference and Work Removal for Identifying Escape Functions
Brian P. Long
Students within the public school system may exhibit severe challenging behavior to escape from academic demands. Procedures to identify the reinforcers that maintain challenging behavior, such as functional analysis, may improve the probability of treatment success. Functional analysis involves manipulating contingencies to determine if positive (e.g., attention following challenging behavior) or negative (e.g., escape from aversive events such as task demands) reinforcers may maintain challenging behavior (Iwata et al., 1982). The absence of evocative tasks could produce inaccurate results when testing for effects …