Behavioral economic influences on treatments designed to decrease destructive behavior.
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Behavioral economic influences on treatments designed to decrease destructive behavior.
In behavioral economics terms, response allocation is viewed as an exchange between the price of and the demand for reinforcers associated with various responses. In this study, behavioral economics principles were used to develop and evaluate a treatment package that reduced destructive behavior to zero while communication and compliance were increased.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0021-8855
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2001.34-211