TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - The effects of choice on self-control
JO  - Journal of applied behavior analysis
A1  - Dixon, Mark R.
A1  - Tibbetts, Pamela A.
SP  - 243
EP  - 252
VL  - 42
IS  - 2
N2  - Three adolescents with traumatic brain injury performed a physical therapy task in the absence of programmed consequences or duration requirements. Next, the experimenter gave the participants the options of a smaller immediate reinforcer with no response requirement or a larger delayed reinforcer with a response requirement. Self-control training exposed participants to a procedure during which they chose between a smaller immediate reinforcer and a progressively increasing delayed reinforcer whose values varied and were determined by a die roll. The participants chose whether they or the experimenter rolled the die. All participants initially demonstrated low baseline durations of the physical therapy task, chose the smaller immediate reinforcer during the choice baseline, and changed their preference to the larger delayed reinforcer during self-control training.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0021-8855
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jaba.2009.42-243
ID  - ref1
ER  -