Leisure items as controls in the attention condition of functional analyses

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 417-426

  McCord, Brandon E ^a,b   Neef, Nancy A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention condition; Control conditions; Functional analysis; Leisure items

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEISURE; NOTE; REINFORCEMENT;

ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33644816127     PISSN: 00218855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2005.116-04     Document Type: Review

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