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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
BEHAVIORAL MOMENTUM IN THE TREATMENT OF NONCOMPLIANCE
Contributor:
Mace, F. Charles;
Hock, Michael L.;
Lalli, Joseph S.;
West, Barbara J.;
Belfiore, Phillip;
Pinter, Elizabeth;
Brown, D. Kirby
imprint:
Wiley, 1988
Published in:Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1901/jaba.1988.21-123
ISSN:
0021-8855;
1938-3703
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Behavioral momentum refers to the tendency for behavior to persist following a change in environmental conditions. The greater the rate of reinforcement, the greater the behavioral momentum. The intervention for noncompliance consisted of issuing a sequence of commands with which the subject was very likely to comply (i.e., high‐probability commands) immediately prior to issuing a low‐probability command. In each of five experiments, the high‐probability command sequence resulted in a “momentum” of compliant responding that persisted when a low‐probability request was issued. Results showed the antecedent high‐probability command sequence increased compliance and decreased compliance latency and task duration. “Momentum‐like” effects were shown to be distinct from experimenter attention and to depend on the contiguity between the high‐probability command sequence and the low‐probability command.</jats:p>