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ABA Inside Track

Episode 47 - Social Reinforcer Assessment

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7634 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

By reading and discussing these two articles, we're pretty confident that every important aspect of social reinforcer assessment gets covered.  From back pats to nose beeps, from finding social reinforcers to assessing them.  Seriously.  It's all here in these two articles.  And when you gaze into social reinforcer assessments, social reinforcer assessments gaze into you!

Articles discussed this episode:

 

Smaby, K., MacDonald, R.P.F., Ahearn, W.H., & Dube, W.V.  (2007)  Assessment protocol for identifying preferred social consequences.  Behavioral Interventions, 22, 311-318.  doi: 10.1002/bin.242

Kelly, M.A., Roscoe, E.M., Hanley, G.P., & Schlichenmeyer, K.  (2014).  Evaluation of assessment methods for identifying social reinforcers.  Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 47, 113-135.  doi: 10.1002/jaba.107

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody.

0:15.4

Welcome to ABA Inside Trek, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.

0:20.4

I'm your host robert perry

0:21.7

cruise and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts still reading the article

0:28.1

perhaps it is me it's jacky i was actually reading a really interesting paragraph over and over again

0:36.7

because i love the word ubiquitous.

0:39.3

You just see that word everywhere.

0:41.3

I know.

0:42.3

Who's that funny person?

0:44.3

It's me, Diana.

0:45.3

Rob, I had paused and didn't say anything because I wanted to see if you continued to respond in the access of reinforcement.

0:51.3

Because I know that social attention is your number one reinforcers.

0:56.0

It is and as Skinner says, the audience is, when you have an audience and no one saying anything, it's super aversive.

1:02.6

I love that actually.

1:04.8

Yeah.

1:05.4

I love awkward.

1:06.7

Just to fill the void.

1:07.9

Awkward silences and I'm like, and then I just make weird faces while the science list continues.

1:14.7

It's aversive.

1:15.5

You're good at that.

1:16.0

It's aversive.

1:16.7

You can't see it right now, but it's happening.

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