Effects of escape to alone versus escape to enriched environments on adaptive and aberrant behavior.

Golonka, Z., Wacker, D., Berg, W., Derby, K. M., Harding, J., & Peck, S. (2000). Effects of escape to alone versus escape to enriched environments on adaptive and aberrant behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 33, 243-246.

Escape-maintained aberrant behavior may be influenced by two outcomes: (a) a break from the activity and (b) subsequent access to preferred activities. To assess this hypothesis, a treatment was developed that analyzed response allocation across two break options: break alone and break with access to preferred social activities. The break with preferred activities decreased aberrant behavior and increased appropriate behavior.

DESCRIPTORS: escape extinction, appropriate behavior, choice making