O'Reilly, M. F. (1999).
Effects of presession attention on the frequency of attention-maintained behavior.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis,
32, 371-374.
The effect of prior attention was systematically manipulated to
study its influence on rates of yelling and head hitting, both
maintained by positive reinforcement in the form of attention.
Higher levels of head hitting occurred in analogue attention
conditions when the person was deprived of attention (no social
interactions for 1 hr) prior to the analysis in comparison to
when the person received high levels of attention (attention
delivered on a fixed-time 30-s schedule for 1 hr) prior to the
analysis.
DESCRIPTORS: _aberrant behavior, functional analysis, establishing
operations, response allocation