@article{ref1,
title="Assessment of stimulus generalization gradients in the treatment of self-injurious behavior",
journal="Journal of applied behavior analysis",
year="1998",
author="Lalli, J. S. and Mace, F. C. and Livezey, K. and Kates, Kelly",
volume="31",
number="3",
pages="479-483",
abstract="Descriptive and experimental analyses suggested that the self-injurious behavior (SIB) of a 10-year-old girl with severe mental retardation was maintained by attention. Additional analyses identified physical contact as the type of attention maintaining SIB; therefore, we hypothesized that physical proximity of an adult was a discriminative stimulus for SIB. Based on these findings, we systematically varied the distance between the participant and a therapist to assess stimulus generalization. Results showed that rates of SIB varied relative to the distance between the participant and therapist; the highest percentage of SIB occurred with the therapist positioned less than 0.5 m from the participant. Treatment consisted of placing the therapist at a specified distance (9.0 m) from the participant (during low-attention situations), noncontingent reinforcement, and extinction.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-8855",
doi="10.1901/jaba.1998.31-479",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1998.31-479"
}