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. 2003 Fall;36(3):355–359. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2003.36-355

Altering the timing of academic prompts to treat destructive behavior maintained by escape.

Mercedes E Ebanks 1, Wayne W Fisher 1
PMCID: PMC1284449  PMID: 14596576

Abstract

Following a functional analysis showing that destructive behavior was reinforced by escape, we altered the aversiveness of task demands by interspersing easy and difficult tasks and by presenting a corrective prompt as an antecedent event the next time a previously failed item was presented; this procedure was compared with one in which the corrective prompt was provided as an immediate consequence. Results of a reversal design showed that the antecedent prompt acted as an establishing operation and reduced destructive behavior to zero.

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