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🗓️ 19 April 2023
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While we all love a good snack, and we can all agree the we'd do almost anything for a Klondike bar, there's more to life than food. So why do behavior analysts get stuck on using edibles as the be all and end all of reinforcement in behavior acquisition? This week, we take a look at the research to see if edible reinforcers really should be selling like hotcakes or if there's more to reinforcement than chocolate-covered potato chips.
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Articles discussed this episode:
Ciccone, F.J., Graff, R.B., & Ahearn, W.H. (2006). Stimulus preference assessments and the utility of a moderate category. Behavioral Intervention, 21, 59-63. doi: 10.1002/bin.190
Clark, S.B., Call, N.A., Simmons, C.A., Scheithauer, M.C., Muething, C.S., & Parks, N. (2020). Effects of magnitude on the displacment of leisure items by edible items during preference assessments. Behavior Modification, 44, 727-745. doi: 10.1177/0145445519843937
Fahmie, T.A., Iwata, B.A., & Jann, K.E. (2015). Comparison of edible and leisure reinforcers. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 48, 331-343. doi: 10.1002/jaba.200
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer. |
0:19.2 | I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruise. And with me, as always, are my fabulous co-hosts. |
0:23.6 | Hey, Rob, it's me, Diana. |
0:25.7 | Still 2023. |
0:27.2 | And it's me, Jackie, still 2023. |
0:30.4 | It's going to be for a while, folks. |
0:32.0 | I've actually, like, skipped over 2023, and I've started writing 2024 on stuff and I like will look at like expiration dates |
0:38.6 | be like oh no it's about to expire but it's actually 24 23 23 it's just like doesn't roll off |
0:44.6 | the tongue same and also what I love I'm gonna hold this because I can't look at you she's very |
0:49.8 | passionate thank you I was so passionate is I was looking at Maynays the other day and the expiration date was May, 23, and I was like, it's done. |
1:01.3 | It's not even May yet. |
1:03.3 | And Matt was like, don't throw that away. |
1:05.1 | I just bought that. |
1:07.1 | That's awesome. |
1:08.0 | Okay, bye. |
1:08.4 | 204, I'm very excited. |
1:10.1 | 24 is one of my favorite numbers it's divisible by |
1:12.9 | one two three four six eight 12 and 24 which really gets me going so they sound like leisure activities |
1:21.6 | counting dates purchasing looking at dates deciding to throw things out, throwing them out. |
1:28.9 | These sound like leisure activities. |
1:31.5 | Environmental events that could function as what reinforcers for all sorts of exciting life behavior for the both of you. |
1:39.3 | Yeah. |
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