Effects of escape to alone versus escape to enriched environments on adaptive and aberrant behavior
- Zbigniew Golonkab(Author),
- David Wacker(Author),
- Wendy Berg(Author),
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- Jay Harding(Author),
- Stephanie Peckc(Author)
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- bSouthbury Training School,
- cUtah State University
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Abstract
Escape-maintained aberrant behavior may be influenced by two outcomes: (a) a break from the activity and (b) subsequent access to preferred activities. To assess this hypothesis, a treatment was developed that analyzed response allocation across two break options: break alone and break with access to preferred social activities. The break with preferred activities decreased aberrant behavior and increased appropriate behavior.