Episode 319 - (Summer 2025 Listener Choice) Factors Influencing the Efficiency of Acquisition
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Teaching new skills is a lot of fun. But sometimes it seems to take forever. And since we all only have so much time to learn everything needed to maximize access to reinforcement in our lives, we don't really have the luxury of time to mess about. So, in good behavior analyst fashion, we look for a better way to min-max our learning activities. Thanks to our awesome patrons, we're talking about increasing the efficiency of skill acquisition through preference assessment, choice, , and reinforcement timing. So many options, but which ones actually matter when it comes to running the most efficient teaching sessions?
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Articles discussed this episode:
Weinsztok, S.C., Goldman, K.J., & DeLeon, I.G. (2023). Assessing parameters of reinforcement on efficiency of acquisition: A systematic review. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 16, 76-92. doi: 10.1007/s40617-022-00715-7
Gureghian, D.L., Vladescu, J.C., Gashi, R., & Campanaro, A. (2020). Reinforcer choice as an antecedent versus consequence during skill acquisition. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 13, 462-466. doi: 10.1007/s40617-019-00356-3
León, Y., Campos, C., Baratz, S., Gorman, C., Price, A., & DeLeon, I. (2025). Effects of initial versus frequent preference assessments on skill acquisition. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 37, 471-487. doi: 10.1007/s10882-024-09971-7
Cividini-Motta, C., Livingston, C., & Efaw, H. (2024). Systematic review of differential reinforcement in skill acquisition. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 17, 401-416. doi: 10.1007/s40617-023-00903-z
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Transcript
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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. I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello, Rob. It's me, Diana, Perry Cruz. |
| 0:25.9 | And it's me, Jackie. I just swallowed and my tea is stuck. |
| 0:30.2 | So everyone, make sure that you fully swallow your tea before your name is going to be announced. |
| 0:36.2 | This is not a health advice podcast. |
| 0:38.2 | This is a podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research where every week we pick a topic and discuss it. |
| 0:44.2 | And by looking at the title, you'll see this is a special week because this is our summer |
| 0:49.3 | 2025 listener choice episode. |
| 0:52.8 | Once a season, we do a poll on our Patreon page and any member of our |
| 0:56.4 | Patreon subscription can vote. That's patreon.com slash ABA Inside Track. We have three topics and you vote |
| 1:03.0 | and that's the episode we do. And as a bonus for our patrons, you're able to watch a video |
| 1:08.8 | of our raw recording of the podcast. Raw. So you get, you know, so if you're just listening, you didn't get to see Jackie almost die choking on her tea. The uncut footage. Who knows if it'll even be in the final cut? It probably will be, because it was great. And you also get a free code that you can use at checkout to get a free CE or no charge CE for listening to this episode. It's a thanks for being a patron at the $5 or up level. So thank you so much. If you're just listening to this on the free feed, hey, not a problem at all. We hope you're enjoying it. You're not going to get to see all the crazy antics that go on in the studio when we record a podcast. |
| 1:49.2 | So, Diana, your topic was the winning topic this season. |
| 1:51.2 | For the first time in forever. |
| 1:52.2 | I can't believe it. For the first time in forever. |
| 1:55.2 | You won. |
| 1:56.1 | So please, let's tell everybody what, unless they voted in which case, they already know. But for folks |
| 2:01.5 | who didn't get a chance to vote, what is our topic today? Yeah, so very exciting. I feel very |
| 2:07.9 | honored to have been chosen, or my topic, at least, which isn't really my topic, it's these |
| 2:12.5 | authors' topics. But I thought it was interesting, too. And that topic is factors influencing |
| 2:16.7 | skill acquisition. And I do is factors influencing skill acquisition. |
| 2:18.4 | And I do want to preface this. |
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