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J Appl Behav Anal. 1996 Spring; 29(1): 107–110.
PMCID: PMC1279879

The effects of contingent and noncontingent attention on self-injury and self-restraint.

K M Derby, W W Fisher, and C C Piazza
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Abstract

Self-restraint and self-injurious behavior (SIB) are two responses that can sometimes be members of the same functional response class (i.e., maintained by the same contingency). In such cases, a single treatment should be effective for both responses. In this investigation, we examined the effects of providing attention (the presumed reinforcer) both noncontingently and contingent upon either SIB or self-restraint. Results were consistent with our hypothesis that both responses were maintained by attention and suggested that noncontingent reinforcement was a potentially effective treatment.

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