BEHAVIORAL CONTROL OF SPASMS USING AVERSIVE CONDITIONING WITH A CEREBRAL PALSIED ADULT
- 1 May 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 152 (5) , 362-363
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-197105000-00007
Abstract
An aversive contingency, electric shock, was imposed on the spastic behaviors of a 20-year-old cerebral palsied male. After eight sessions of aversive conditioning, the spasticity rate decreased from a base rate of 54 to 82 responses/30-minute session to 3 responses/30-minute session. The advisability of considering spastic behavior as learned as well as physiologically produced was discussed.Keywords
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