Episode 20 - Noncontingent Reinforcement

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Because noncontingent reinforcement goes beyond constant access to a bag of M+Ms, we bring you this, the latest episode of ABA Inside Track. Jackie and Rob are ready to meet your response-independent schedule needs, especially if those needs include a synopsis of the Hugga Bunch movie. Diana reviews NCR schedules, from dense to lean and everything in between, though expresses a preference for dense when candy is involved. Finally, a heated discussion ensues regarding extinction as a ruiner of contingency marriages. Listen closely: this episode is chock-full of putative possibilities.

Articles discussed this episode:

Hagopian, L.P., Fisher, W.W., & Legacy, S.M. (1994). Schedule effects of noncontingent reinforcement on attention-maintained destructive behavior in identical quadruplets. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 27, 317-325. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1994.27-317

Wallce, M.D., Iwata, B.A., Hanley, G.P., Thompson, R.H., & Roscoe, E.M. (2012). Noncontingent reinforcement: A further examination of schedule effects during treatment. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 45, 709-719. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2012.45-709

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0:00.0	Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.
0:19.6	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruise, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. So, Rob, since you're the host, does that make Jackie and I the hostess Twinkies? Who is this speaking? Oh, it's Diana. Oh, hi, Diana. Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. And who would be other Twinkie in this pack? Jackie! Hi. McDonald. Come on down. So, in answer to you, you're mixing your studio metaphors, I think. That's okay. I was doing prices right. Yes. I was doing Arsenio. You're the same. They're the same. Yeah, they're similar.
0:54.8	So welcome, everybody.
0:56.1	This is a podcast where we talk about research in the realm of behavior analysis.
1:03.5	This week we will be talking about non-contingent reinforcement, or as many of you probably know it, NCR.
1:11.8	So we have two fun articles to discuss some applications of NCR.
1:16.4	But before we get into that, we are going to do a little review of NCR for those of you who might not use this procedure that much.
1:24.7	So, Diana, take it away with an NCCR description. NCR wrap. Cut that mic. Cut the mic. I wish I knew. I wish I had a rap prepare. That would have been really great. Sorry, I probably let everybody down right there. You let me down, actually, because I was like, what? This is a surprise even for me as a co-host rip rap no I can't
1:46.5	really rap um me neither what I can sing acoustic you thought I could do everything I was I'm blown
1:54.0	away this is a shocker that you are not rapping I could I could sing it I could sing a soft slow tune
2:00.1	NCR response independence schedule
2:05.3	oh that's actually pretty nice thanks i'll salute welcome to bedtime magic right very good so
2:13.3	we call it non-continent reinforcement or nCR but I know there are some listeners out there
2:21.4	as well as perhaps some of us in this room that might have some beef with that particular term
2:26.5	yeah right because I've got some pork with it do-pom-pom-b-b-d-, well, first of all.
2:35.5	Your drum roll ruined your description.
2:36.7	I know.
2:37.0	I kind of forgot I was saying.
2:39.0	So first of all, you just now, Jackie, called it, what did you just call it?
2:44.1	A response.
2:44.5	A response independent schedule.
2:47.8	I really like that.
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