TY - JOUR
T1 - EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF RESPONSE COVARIATION AMONG COMPLIANT AND INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIORS
AU - Parrish, John M.
AU - Cataldo, Michael F.
AU - Kolko, David J.
AU - Neef, Nancy A.
AU - Egel, Andrew L.
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - Reliable changes in a variety of behaviors, or classes of behaviors, when only one is manipulated experimentally, have demonstrated that even topographically dissimilar responses can be functionally related. We investigated such a relationship between topographically different child behaviors (compliance and inappropriate activities) by using a methodology that tests for response covariation. Five conditions were provided to sequentially increase and decrease first one and then the other of these behaviors, with the degree of covariation between the two behaviors (i.e., the relationship between changes in the targeted and nontargeted behaviors) being the finding of interest. Results showed that, regardless of the intervention used, the behavior targeted, or the direction manipulated, the nontargeted behavior reliably covaried inversely with the targeted one. The findings have immediate relevance to the clinical treatment of multiple behavior problems exhibited by children. Furthermore, the study of relationships between responses and the processes underlying these relationships can have important implications for understanding the complexity characteristic of human behavior not yet analyzed by behavioral research. 1986 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
AB - Reliable changes in a variety of behaviors, or classes of behaviors, when only one is manipulated experimentally, have demonstrated that even topographically dissimilar responses can be functionally related. We investigated such a relationship between topographically different child behaviors (compliance and inappropriate activities) by using a methodology that tests for response covariation. Five conditions were provided to sequentially increase and decrease first one and then the other of these behaviors, with the degree of covariation between the two behaviors (i.e., the relationship between changes in the targeted and nontargeted behaviors) being the finding of interest. Results showed that, regardless of the intervention used, the behavior targeted, or the direction manipulated, the nontargeted behavior reliably covaried inversely with the targeted one. The findings have immediate relevance to the clinical treatment of multiple behavior problems exhibited by children. Furthermore, the study of relationships between responses and the processes underlying these relationships can have important implications for understanding the complexity characteristic of human behavior not yet analyzed by behavioral research. 1986 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
KW - child behavior problems
KW - compliance
KW - response covariation
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U2 - 10.1901/jaba.1986.19-241
DO - 10.1901/jaba.1986.19-241
M3 - Article
C2 - 3771417
AN - SCOPUS:0022774524
SN - 0021-8855
VL - 19
SP - 241
EP - 254
JO - Journal of applied behavior analysis
JF - Journal of applied behavior analysis
IS - 3
ER -