Episode 2 - Conditioned Reinforcers in the Social Setting
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Rob, Diana, and Jackie review research on establishing conditioned reinforcers through social means. Topics include using pairing to make praise reinforcing and learning that books can be reinforcing through observation of another person. We also discuss our favorite novel praise statements and get to the bottom of Rob's spending habits.
Articles reviewed:
Dozier, C. L., Iwata, B. A., Thomason-Sassi, J., Worsdell, A. S., & Wilson, D. M. (2012). A COMPARISON OF TWO PAIRING PROCEDURES TO ESTABLISH PRAISE AS A REINFORCER. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 45(4), 721–735. doi: 10.1901/jaba/2012.45-721
Singer-Dudek, J., Oblak, M., & Greer, R. D. (2011). ESTABLISHING BOOKS AS CONDITIONED REINFORCERS FOR PRESCHOOL CHILDREN AS A FUNCTION OF AN OBSERVATIONAL INTERVENTION. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 44(3), 421–434. doi.org/10.1901/jaba.2011.44-421
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to ABA Inside Track Episode 2. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me are my fabulous co-hosts. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Diana, and I'm Dr. Jacqueline McDonald. |
| 0:27.6 | So fancy. We got... Thank you. Oh, man, I just gave like the Belveda introduction. |
| 0:33.1 | You gave like the Brea and Grapes introduction. It's because I'm very sophisticated, as you will see. |
| 0:39.7 | You know she is. |
| 0:40.9 | She holds her pinky up when she drinks tea, guys. |
| 0:43.9 | I'm drinking tea right now. |
| 0:46.0 | Wow, two episodes in, and we've gotten very high and mighty with our content. |
| 0:51.6 | This week, we'll be talking about conditioned reinforcers in the social setting. We're |
| 0:56.5 | going to start with the article by Dozier-Iwada, Thompson Sassy, Wordsl, and Wilson titled |
| 1:02.6 | A Comparison of Two Pairing Procedures to Establish Praise as a Reinforcer, which is a topic |
| 1:08.4 | that I think anyone who works with children with autism is very |
| 1:12.0 | interested in hearing if there is a clear solution. So, Diana, why don't you tell us about this study? |
| 1:17.3 | Okay, I can do that. Although, I don't know that I can answer the question you just put forth. |
| 1:22.2 | I don't know if the article was completely able to either. It's still a challenging subject, |
| 1:27.4 | but I think we have some good |
| 1:29.0 | discussion points to lead us in a direction down the road as a field. So I really liked this article, |
| 1:35.4 | and I'm excited to get to talk about it. As I was reading it, I was really, you know, reflecting. |
| 1:40.5 | And I feel like this article for me is, it's finger-licking good, |
| 1:46.2 | is the way that I came to think about it. |
| 1:48.8 | And I feel like it works as a piece of chicken on two levels. |
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