Vibration as a reinforcer with a profoundly retarded child1

1 January 1969

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Vol. 2 (2) , 135-137
https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1969.2-135

Abstract

Data are presented which indicate that lever-pressing behavior of a profoundly retarded child could be reinforced by the contingent application of vibratory stimulation for each response. With vibration available 24 hr per day, no decrement in daily rate of responding for vibration was seen over a three-week period. Suggestions are made for further use of this finding in working with the profoundly retarded.

Keywords

REINFORCER
PROFOUNDLY
CHILD1 DATA
PRESSING BEHAVIOR
CONTINGENT APPLICATION
DAILY RATE
RETARDED CHILD

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Vibration as reinforcer for infant children.
1960
Operant Conditioning of a Vegetative Human Organism
The American Journal of Psychology, 1949