Treatment of multiply controlled destructive behavior with food reinforcement.

Adelinis, J. D., Piazza, C. C., & Goh, H. (2001). Treatment of multiply controlled destructive behavior with food reinforcement. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 34, 97-100.

We evaluated the extent to which the positive reinforcement of communication would reduce multiply controlled destructive behavior in the absence of relevant extinction components. When edible reinforcement for appropriate communication and nonfood reinforcers for problem behavior were available simultaneously, responding was allocated almost exclusively toward the behavior that produced edible reinforcement.

DESCRIPTORS: _differential reinforcement, multiple control, establishing operations, concurrent schedules